Word: missourians
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Record. Earlier, Wendell Willkie faced 100 Missouri G.O.P. bigwigs and businessmen at a spark-charged luncheon in St. Louis' Hotel Jefferson. One Missourian came out mumbling: "He tore into us like a biting sow." For Willkie had said to the big men from Missouri...
Chief beneficiary: a Missourian who searched all over Los Angeles for three days without finding work, began drinking in desperation, landed in jail and a boilermaker...
...around bungling-some of it involving himself-as to make lesser men despair of democracy. By & large the report was sound and thorough, though its value was lessened by the sensational and politically tinged charges made by Senator Truman in his summary of it to the Senate. The Missourian, perhaps out of his anxiety to get a new $100,000 appropriation to continue his probe, weakened his own work by resorting to claptrap generalizations, even by gross errors-such as an assertion that more than half of U.S. total pursuit-plane production in 1942 would be of mediocre models...
...Indiana University historical murals at last installed and paid for, swart, swashbuckling little Missourian Thomas Benton wrote the university a bread-&-butter letter. He thanked the building's architects for the "great gilded spittoons which they have placed to hide as much of the paintings as possible," since "spittoons of Indiana's tobacco-chewing era are more appropriate to my murals, even when they hide them, than Greco-Roman statues or Mayan reliefs...
Bovard's successor is a 6 ft. 4 in., 235-Ib. Missourian named Benjamin Harrison Reese. Editor Reese has just one aim in life: to see that the Post-Dispatch lives up to its reputation his predecessors gave it. In that ambition he is backed by two fighting Irish henchmen: ruddy Editorial Editor Ralph Coghlan, sandy-haired Cartoonist Daniel Robert Fitzpatrick...