Word: millarde
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Washington Secretary Stimson announced that Army reinforcements (ground and air) had been sent to Guadalcanal under command of Major General Millard F. Harmon...
Died. Thomas Franklin Fairfax Millard, 74, veteran war correspondent, first U.S. political adviser to the Chinese Republic; in Seattle. He covered the Boer, Greco-Turkish, Spanish-American and Russo-Japanese wars, World War I, the Boxer Rebellion, and part of the Sino-Japanese war, helped found The China Press, first U.S. paper in Shanghai, and Millard's Weekly Review in Shanghai. More honest than discreet, he was a frequent critic of U.S. policy in China, a more strenuous critic of Japanese policy. He was adviser to the Chinese at the Paris Peace Conference, the League of Nations sessions from...
...race horse is "practically mucilage," and marriage is described as "one room, two chins, three kids." There is the usual Runyon corps de ballet of ham-hearted grifters, heisters and passers, played by a friendly crowd of veterans from Hollywood (Eugene Pallette, Louise Beavers) and Broadway (Sam Levene, Millard Mitchell). Carefully solemn Henry Fonda has the dignity of a wax grape of wrath among satiated little foxes. Pretty Lucille Ball, who was born for the parts Ginger Rogers sweats over, tackles her "emotional" role as if it were sirloin and she didn't care who was looking. There...
Under two of Franklin Roosevelt's pet agencies-the Budget Bureau and National Resources Planning Board-Congress lit a slow fire. A Senate Appropriations Subcommittee, headed by Millard E. Tydings of Maryland, reported that the agencies were rife with "ideologies and theories looking forward to greater Governmental expenditures and greater deficits during the post-war period." Said the subcommittee: "Such controversial matters (better termed 'propaganda') should not be sponsored at public expense...
...recipients for the year 1942-43 are: Millard C. Browne, Editorial and Political writer, Sacramento (Cal.) Union; James M. Daniel 3rd, Reporter, Washington Daily News; John F. Day, Jr., Filing Editor, Associated Press, Huntington, West Virginia; Edward J. Donohoe, Reporter, Scranton Times; Robert C. Elliott, Editor, War News, San Francisco News; James P. Etheridge, Jr., Editorial writer, Tampa Daily Times, Tampa Florida; Thomas H. Griffith, Jr., Assistant City Editor, Seattle Times; Ernest M. Hill, Political writer and state capital reporter, United Press, Oklahoma City; Frank K. Kelly, Rewrite, city desk, Associated Press, New York; Erwin W. Kieckhefer, Country Editor, Minneapolis...