Word: palmer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sure to disturb moderate Britons? To some, slim, aloof Professor Laski is just an "inoffensive scholar" (19 books and innumerable articles). To some, he is socialism's No. 1 intellectual soapboxer. To others, in his own words, he is a combination Guy Fawkes and Trotsky, a "reincarnation of Palmer, the Poisoner...
Into the Drake's pink Walton Room trooped 90 glowing Chicago Tribune men and their ladies. At an estimated $50 a head-for food, drink and a $3,200 silver service-they came to honor the boss, Publisher Robert Rutherford McCormick. Two days later at the Palmer House, some 1,500 carefully selected citizens (including ten Negroes) gathered for speeches praising McCormick, a speech by McCormick and a free meal...
...Married. Palmer Reid Long, 21, A.A.F. cadet and younger son of Louisiana's late "Kingfish," Huey P. Long; and pretty, blonde Louene Dance, 20; in Los Angeles...
Married. George Palmer Putnam, 57, author, explorer, wild-animal hunter, pet-collector, ex-Army major, ex-publisher, husband of Flyer Amelia Earhart when she disappeared in 1937 on a trans-Pacific flight; and Margaret Haviland, 36, U.S.O. executive; he for the fourth time, she for the first; in San Marino, Calif...
...mechanized outfit the ist Cavalry Division left Fort Bliss in 1943, bound for the Pacific. Its commander was burly Major General Innis Palmer ("Bull") Swift, a veteran spit-&-polish horse soldier ("It doesn't take a damn bit of practice to live like a hog") who made a crack record in combat...