Word: randolphs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...over. Mississippi's squat, jug-eared Theodore Gilmore ("The Man") Bilbo, 66, became "mayor" of the city. Whereas four of his skittish seniors declined the Chairmanship of the Senate District Committee, The Man accepted with enthusiasm. Hereafter, with the House's hard-working Jennings Randolph, Senator Bilbo will pass on the District's budget, and thus on its civic welfare...
From a population (1940) of 319,010, the metropolitan area of San Antonio furnished the armed forces 51,000, including many sons-in-law. (San Antonio, longtime home of Kelly and Randolph Fields and Fort Sam Houston, is called "mother-in-law of the Army...
...Dangerous precedent ... a threat to freedom of the press," cried J. D. Gortatowsky, general manager of William Randolph Hearst's newspapers. But Czar Boeschenstein was braced to meet this kind of storm, which he had seen coming. He had allocated 20,000 tons of the extra newsprint to 65 newspapers in part replacement of WPB's 1943 borrowings distributed to quota-short publishers. Another 5,954 tons was laid aside for the extra day of Leap Year...
...same Bulletin Commander Melvin Dewey Abbott and Lieut. John Randolph Gepfert report using medicated human blood plasma as a burn dressing. They got the idea from the light yellow blood serum which exudes from any deep burn and acts as a soothing, protective coating. They mixed blood plasma with a little sulfanilamide and some gum tragacanth to make a paste, used it on twelve second-degree burns. "The results were very definitely better than those obtained by the use of any one of the many methods in vogue during the past two years...
Controversy developed. Joseph Chamberlain, Board of Trade president, favored the project until he lunched, one day, in the dead-end hole. It was very dusty; his suit was dirtied; the experience antagonized him toward the scheme. Gladstone favored the tunnel; Lord Randolph Churchill quashed it with a cogent remark. Said he: "The reputation of England has hitherto depended upon her being, as it were, virgo Intacta." Periodically the project was revived, discussed, quashed. Britons mostly agreed with Winston Churchill's father, had especial reason to do so when the Germans reached Calais...