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Then came the big news. A Republican freshman, Congressman Albert Lewis Miller of Kimball, Neb., suddenly remembered that he had in his pocket a couple of letters from General MacArthur-and released them to the press. Miller, once an able, prosperous physician, owned a hospital in Kimball until 1934, when he lost both his legs in a hunting accident. He traveled every country in the world but three (Turkey, Afghanistan, Greece), and then took up politics. But politics is no easy science; Dr. Miller did not seem aware of what he had now done. He had met the General twice...
Local advisers had warned him that the speech he planned to make would be poor politics in a town where fully two-thirds of the people are of German descent. That made no difference to Wendell Willkie. To 3,000 listeners in the Civic Auditorium of little Norfolk, Neb. (pop. 10,490) that evening, the big man proudly recalled his early and potent support of Lend-Lease, Selective Service and other war measures which most Republican professionals opposed. With strong hands and heavy voice he hammered away at his familiar arguments for international cooperation and all-out, sacrificial war, hoarsely...
About Enough. A Grand Island, Neb. sailor wrote home from overseas: "We asked the censor and he said it was all right to tell you that we are at (deleted by censor). That is about all I can tell you, though." Dodger. On Kwajalein Atoll, marines prepared to dynamite a stubborn dugout when a Jap ran out yelling, "Don't shoot! I've got a brother in Brooklyn...
...Sweet, janitor of the Blue's Chicago studios, led off with an infuriating rendition of Mairzy Doats on his washboard, casserole cover, alarm clock, etc. But the title was tucked away by redheaded James Howard Nash, alias Panhandle Pete (see cut), ex-North Carolina hillbilly of Grand Island, Neb., Station KMMJ, who detonated his Wabash Cannon Ball on an automobile exhaust whistle, cowbell, six feet of garden hose and 14 other gadgets. Said his opponent: "I know when I'm licked...
...Grand Island, Neb., a small cluster of people spied the candidate through the train window. Said Willkie's aide-decamp, boyishly exuberant Lem Jones, "They're waving at you." Willkie, engrossed in his talk, gave the platform crowd an absent jerk of the head, a quick flip of the hand-and went on talking. Newsmen thought of the Big Hello which Franklin Roosevelt would have given...