Word: myer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Three excited youngsters, sons of Manhattan's millionaire Toy Manufacturer Louis Marx, arrived recently at the Fort Myer, Va. quarters of General Omar Bradley for a visit with their star-studded godfathers. Result: a medley of big names and a remarkable godfather-godson picture. The host posed in the background with the Air Force's Major General Emmett ("Rosey") O'Donnell. On a couch sat Dwight Eisenhower holding Spencer Bedell Marx, 3½. Under Secretary of State Lieut. General Walter Bedel! Smith held Emmett Dwight Marx, 2½, and squirming on the lap of General George Marshall...
DILLON S. MYER resigned as Commissioner of Indian Affairs. An agronomist for state governments and colleges in Kentucky, Indiana and Ohio. Myer went to Washington in 1934, serving with the AAA and then the Soil Conservation Service. After Pearl Harbor, he was given the tough chore of relocating West Coast Japanese. In 1946 he became Public Housing Commissioner, and in 1950 he took over the Interior Department's Bureau of Indian Affairs...
...husband's painting career began, she confided, at Fort Myer, Va. (when he was on duty at the nearby Pentagon after the war). He just called for "a rag, thumb tacks and a board." The rag turned out to be a dish cloth on which he painted an oil portrait of Mamie. "I just don't know the word for it," she said...
...Hitler and Stalin were buddies, and the A.Y.C. was denouncing her husband as an imperialist warmonger. Even at this late date, she invited the leaders to stay at the White House, begged Cabinet wives to take others in, got the Army to provide cots for the rest at Fort Myer, Va., and asked Franklin to address them from the south portico of the White House. "Franklin's intent to be kind and understanding was evident, but he felt obliged to say some pretty harsh things." They booed. She later wrote: "Although I could see how the young people felt...
...movies (The Thin Man, Cheaper by the Dozen); and Howland H. Sargeant, 39, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs, who last year headed the United States' UNESCO delegation to which she was an adviser; she for the fourth time, he for the second; at Fort Myer...