Word: posted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...once put on a one-man show that resulted in the capture of almost 600 Italians. In the rear areas he was a holy terror. He liked to wear officers' uniforms, or bits of uniforms from several different armies. He consistently roamed away from his guard duty post, would walk a mile to avoid a salute...
Last week, ex-Interior Secretary Harold Ickes followed this pattern as he began describing "My Twelve Years with F.D.R." in the Saturday Evening Post. He took a wallop at Harry Hopkins' WPA: "[Harry] was not priming the pump; he was just turning on the fireplug." He indignantly described an undercover effort by Henry Wallace to get him out of the Cabinet. Wrote he of Henry in a 1938 diary entry: "Henry Wallace is a selfish and not too forthright individual who is so consumed with his political ambition that there isn't anything that...
...matter drifted until a subsequent luncheon when Ickes brought it up again. "I said, 'Mr. President, I have an idea. Why don't you send for Woodring and say to him, "Harry, ordinarily Dublin is not an important diplomatic post, but now it is, on account of the war. There will be a vacancy there and I wish to fill it with one of my very strongest men. I want to appoint you." ' The President did not seem to think Woodring would agree to this...
...Hollywood was now almost knee-deep in TV. Warner Brothers closed a $1,000,000 deal (contingent on the FCC's sanction) with New York Post Publisher Dorothy Thackrey to buy her two West Coast radio stations and a precious Los Angeles TV permit. Paramount already owns two stations, is bidding against 20th Century-Fox for a San Francisco channel. Twentieth Century-Fox announced that it will now also produce films specially for television. Only two major studios (MGM, RKO Radio) still hang back. "The whole industry," said one film maker, "is either jumping or jumpy...
...Parcel Post. A bill to set up an air parcel post system was passed by the Senate. It provides for parcels up to 70 pounds to be airmailed anywhere within the U.S., at 55? to 80? a pound, depending on the distance. The House is expected to pass the bill before adjournment, thus giving scheduled airlines a much needed boost in business...