Word: pens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Despite the fact that Jawn rhymes with corn and that Mr. William Gillette is not the greatest pen-pusher of the last age, "Too Much Johnson" is liable to start you on a laughing jag. Just get in the spirit of the thing. It's blessed with a villain who commands his plantation slaves by shooting a gun over their heads, a blushing damsel, a Frenchman with mustachios and a hero who extricates himself from spots tighter than his 1890 pants. The farce is flavored with one ridiculous situation after another, though it must be admitted that...
Franklin Roosevelt signed the bill with Robert Ramspeck's fountain pen. Then Ramspeck cautioned reporters not to expect miracles; the measure's full force will take some four years to effect. But Ramspeck estimated that about 25% of those Government workers now employed will fail to pass the required noncompetitive examination, must then be dropped within six months. Thus the Government will slough off some 50,000 workers as incompetent or unfit, 5% of all U. S. employes...
...base squarely within the Caribbean. For big, rugged Jamaica, the U. S. Navy has big plans : an anchorage at Portland Bight, in Galleon Harbor 33 square miles of land base; 100 acres near Williamsfield for a recreation centre and hospital mess ; a mile-square area south of May Pen for an emergency and auxiliary landing field. Near by at Port Royal the British naval dockyard, long neglected, will be improved by the U. S., providing the U. S. Navy with a place to service its warships halfway between the Canal and the Atlantic Coast...
...economics and was attracted by its fringes... At fourscore he had lived his life, his work was done, the friends of his own age were fast dropping away. But his influence is actively at work in thousands of minds that are thinking more clearly because through voice or pen they came into contact with him. What more could a scholar want...
...Pen Pal," Allen Ecker, Leverett...