Word: nelson
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Mark Wayne Clark, Brehon B. Somer-vell, Joseph W. Stilwell, Joseph T. Mc-Narney, Ira C. Eaker, Carl Spaatz, Millard F. Harmon, Omar Nelson Bradley, Robert L. Eichelberger, George C. Kenney and Jap-imprisoned Jonathan M. Wainwright. Also held up were the promotions of two major generals: Thomas T. Handy and Walter B. Smith...
Married. Evelyn Nelson, baby-voiced songstress "Wee Bonnie Baker" (Oh, Johnny, Oh, Johnny, Oh!); and First Lieut. John Morse, of the Army's Signal Corps; she for the second time, he for the first; in Manhattan...
Stop Willkie. The men who would stop Willkie agreed on everything except the man who could stop Willkie. On the smear level, ex-Akron Mayor C. Nelson Sparks published a bitter polemic asserting that international bankers and utilities magnates had engineered Willkie's 1940 nomination. The faded sunflower, 1936 Nominee Alf Landon, pictured for freshmen G.O.P. Congressmen his own ideal candidate, who could not possibly have been confused with Wendell Willkie. The general anti-Willkie strategy: don't commit now, wait until convention time...
Hugh Butler's mathematics got quick corrections. Tennessee's bulb-nosed Kenneth McKellar interrupted Butler's oratory to set the cost of Good Neighborliness at $2,207 million. Few hours later, Interamerican Coordinator Nelson Rockefeller totted it up, got less than $600 million. Henry Wallace summed up: "fantastic figures ... a shocking slur...
Engaged. Elizabeth Cannell Bradley, 19, only daughter of Lieut. General Omar Nelson Bradley, tall, tough commander of the Army II Corps in Tunisia and Sicily; and West Point Cadet Henry Shaw Beukema ('44), son of West Point's famed geo-politicker; in West Point...