Word: oshkosh
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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City officials did their best to put up a brave front. After all, one explained, it was worth $10 million in trade to Manhattan merchants, restaurateurs and barkeeps. The thing to do was to provide "the same warmth and friendliness that they would find in a small place like Oshkosh...
...director of the News Office had worked in Washington before the war for the Associated Press from 1935 to 1940 and did newspaper work on his hometown paper, the Oshkosh Daily Northwestern, before that...
...they were almost as unlike s two young people could be. Square-aced, serious Ed Willock, 30, a Boston Catholic with a high-school education, supported his wife & four children as a shipping clerk, studied commercial art on the side. Thin, big-eyed Carol Jackson, 35, was born in Oshkosh, Wis., the daughter of a corporation lawyer. She majored in philosophy at Wellesley, traveled around the world, free-lanced, was converted to Catholicism in 1941. But when Ed Willock ind Carol Jackson met last spring, as contributors to the Dominican magazine, the Torch, they found they...
...World. In Oshkosh, Wis., Lloyd Connick, veteran of three campaigns, holder of the Bronze Star, the Purple Heart, and an honorable discharge from the Army, turned 17, joined the Navy...
...radio, the Presidential campaign is a bonanza. The industry stands to make several million dollars selling broadcast time to the political parties. Last week Station WOSH of Oshkosh announced a novel way of boosting the ante. WOSH decided that President Roosevelt's recent radio report on his Pacific journey (TIME, Aug. 21, Sept. 4) "was political in its entirety." Consequently, from now until Election Day Franklin Roosevelt, like his opponent, will have to pay WOSH for every radio speech, political or otherwise, made over the station...