Word: one-woman
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Against this doom Geneviève Tabouis, ex-political pythoness of Paris' Leftist L'Oeuvre, for seven years waged a one-woman struggle, of which these memoirs are a record. To her hopeless struggle she brought a union sacrée of journalistic hysteria and a sense of history that made her acutely aware of all that was most ominous to France in the turmoil of her times. She crammed her daily column on international politics with facts. Sometimes they were staggering and momentarily effective. Sometimes they were merely melodramatic...
...Faversham, actor son of the late Actor WTilliam Faversham; Charles John Vincent Murphy, a veteran of the 1934 Byrd Antarctic expedition and an editor of FORTUNE and David Scherman, LIFE photographer who photographically pioneered U.S. bases in the Caribbean and scooped the world with views of Betty Carstairs' one-woman realm on Whale Cay, Bahamas...
...one-woman aid committee is blue-eyed, bouncing Gracie Fields, England's favorite comedienne. Once a $1,000,000-a-year woman, she now pleads patriotic poverty. From 62 performances in the U. S. and Canada, she has turned over $130,000 to her country. Chorus from her hit song: We're going to 'ang old 'Itler from the very 'ighest bough of the biggest aspidistra in the world...
...sired by Franklin Roosevelt out of confusion, which was the stable-name of the NDAC. The President had been greatly responsible for the confusion, although some of it was inherent in the size of the task and the nature of the problem. NDAC was a six-man, one-woman board charged with duties to buy, control, employ, arbitrate, stabilize, protect and manage national rearmament without ruining the country now or later. OPM has a simpler task: to produce arms. It has a simple creed: God help anyone who gets in the way of U. S. defense, or God help...
...turned the right way around, and asking for "some little boats." So it was through the Christmas seasons during the '30's, when they all trooped to the White House-James, Anna, John, Elliott, Franklin Jr., "Sistie" and "Buzzie" Dall, the in-laws, and, as the one-woman embodiment of all the Roosevelt traditions, the President's mother, Sara Delano Roosevelt...