Word: pied
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When able Cary Augustus Hardee, onetime Governor of Florida, fired away at Franklin Roosevelt last fortnight without coming out for his opponent, Candidate Willkie kept silent. Blasted Cary Hardee: "We will hear much in this campaign from the 'pie counter' crowd about how the rank and file of a great people drafted Mr. Roosevelt. Will the people be fooled by it?" But when aging (73) isolationist Senator Hiram Johnson denounced the President for calling him no longer liberal, the Republican nominee chimed in. Observed he: "I would be delighted if a great progressive like Hiram Johnson...
...plausible and funny Elmer. Marvelous to witness was the enthusiasm with which he tore through food at each performance. In the course of an hour and a half as Elmer, he consumes a slice of ham, a batch of fried potatoes, four griddle cakes with syrup, a piece of pie, two cups of coffee, two apples, half a grapefruit, a glass of orange juice, two doughnuts, a slice of toast and a bit of shad roe. Only recently released from a Los Angeles hospital, where (after an auto accident) he spent over six months in a cast with a broken...
Died. Ben Turpin. 71, oldtime cinecomedian famed for his incredibly crossed eyes, veteran of many a pie-throwing Keystone Comedy; after long illness; in Hollywood...
...Hoover, in a broadcast from New York, drew three lessons from the past: 1) experts in manufacturing, industry, labor, transportation, agriculture are essential in a procurement program; 2) board, councils, committees are worthless: one man must control industrial production; 3) politicians must be kept out of the defense pie. Stressing unity of purpose, Mr. Hoover underlined economic regeneration of the U. S. as a prime defense requirement...
...tune this season has the lilt of last season's Yours for a Song (reminiscent of Johann Strauss's Tales from the Vienna Woods), and much like last year's are the smooth water ballets, the adroit diving acts, the custard-pie antics ashore & afloat. But by using scenes from the San Francisco...