Word: pittman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Moonshine. Accounts of most foreign newsmen in Bucharest agreed with Bourgin's testimony. But not all. The Government hustled New York Daily Worker Correspondent John Pittman to a radio microphone to give his view. Gushed Pittman: "Millions of American Negroes and peasants would be glad to get a chance to go to the polls and have police and soldiers protect them." At a post-election press conference, U.S. and British newsmen questioned Premier Groza mercilessly about the excesses they had witnessed. When a Pravda correspondent finally got a chance, he asked the Premier a question that was a perfect...
They had the boats and the Vineyard people didn't. Result: Vineyarders got a month's practice at casting into the surf, and Cuttyhunkers got all the big fish. The prizewinner, a fat, 47-lb. black-striper, was landed by New York Salesman Gordon Pittman in a Cuttyhunk boat, at 9:30 one night with the moon shining on the Vineyard's clay cliffs 200 yards away. It gave Cuttyhunkers, who claim that their 636-acre isle is the scene of The Tempest,* another honor to talk about...
...drought was really on: The cloakroom of the U.S. Senate rumbled with such eloquent outrage over the dry spell that Nevada's balding James Scrugham (successor to the late Key Pittman) asked the Judiciary Committee to find the causes of hoarded, high-priced, hard-to-find spirits. Said Senator Scrugham, plaintively: "I have made some personal investigation of this matter...
Lieut. William Pittman tried desperately to save Cheli. He pulled up out of formation head on for a Zero, exposing himself to the whole pack. Lightnings rescued him. But Cheli was beyond help. As he turned-out to sea he called to his wingman to take over. He put the plane down. Pittman said it seemed to explode when it hit the water...
Rapprochement. The war and the accidents of politics brought Franklin Roosevelt and Walter George together again. When Nevada's Senator Key Pittman died in November 1940, Walter George became chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee. He worked hard for revision of the Neutrality Act and Lend-Lease...