Word: plumley
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Atlanta packing-plant employees, Norman Plumley, 20, a wienie worker, and Doris Mae Wilson, 22, an egg packer, met while walking out on strike. Love bloomed; eleven days later, while a juke box played I Don't Want Her, You Can Have Her, She's Too Fat For Me, they were married on the picket line by a blind preacher...
Grey-haired old Charles Plumley, Vermont's lone Congressman, rose up in the House one day last week to make an announcement. Because of "the alleged scarcity of paper pulp," said Congressman Plumley, he was sending out no Christmas cards this year. And he then & there wished everybody a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. He was cheered to the rafters...
...these moments came when Vermont's Representative Charles A. Plumley found an item of $7,000,000 to build a stadium at Annapolis. That did not seem to Mr. Plumley to be essential to the war. Ernie King's deputy, Vice Admiral Frederick J. Home (not the least of whose qualifications is his ability to get along with Congress) quickly admitted that the item should not have been put in the bill. "The bureau chiefs are here, and I think you are going to give them a bad quarter of an hour," said wry Admiral Home...
...Pessimists. When asking for money the admirals are almost invariably doleful about the war's progress. Plumley's observation that half his mail protested the spending of so much money for what Army and Navy men sometimes call this "soon-to-be-ended war," prompted Vice Admiral Ben Moreell, burly, able chief of the Bureau of Yards and Docks, to answer soberly: "I do not believe you will find any responsible military man who will agree with the thesis that...
Fortnight ago a small group of farmers, applegrowers, storekeepers and newspapermen met in Rutland to air their Plumley grievances. Result: Sam Ogden decided...