Word: saviors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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General Douglas MacArthur got an honorary Doctor of Laws from Manila's University of Santo Tomas, whose rector acclaimed him "greater than Alexander the Great or Napoleon, man of destiny and savior of Christian civilization...
...years later the penitent lawmakers paid her back and for good measure hung her portrait (titled "savior of the Alamo") on a capitol wall. One of the legislators was Newspaperman Henry Hulme Sevier, founder of the Austin American. By the time he married the fiery-eyed, sabertongued heiress in 1906 she had written two novels, a musicomedy (Mexicana) which the Shuberts produced on Broadway. And she was already up to her pretty neck in politics, business, philanthropy...
Last week in San Antonio the Lone Star flag drooped at half-staff above the weathered walls of the Alamo. In impressive state in the Alamo's chapel lay the body of its savior. Death (of a cerebral hemorrhage), as it must to all empresses, had come to Texas' Clara Driscoll...
Frenchmen grieved and worried. A Parisian flower-vendor propped a black headline, Roosevelt est mort, against his cart of bouquets - "for the death of a savior," he said. A bank clerk cried: "La voix de l'Amérique est diminuée de moitié - America's voice is reduced by half!" Hundreds signed the Embassy register. Hundreds sent cards of regret to Americans whom they had never known. Frenchmen came up to Americans in the streets, shook hands, and said: "We have lost our best friend. . . . What will happen...
...telephone wire; that the President might not even make an acceptance speech, but just acknowledge his renomination at a regular White House press conference. And in Chicago, Ed Kelly's Illinois Democrats held their state convention, tried out some of 1944's slogans. Two of them: "Roosevelt, Savior of the Common Man" and "Our Boys Over There Want Roosevelt Here." Some preferred an earlier, Kelly-coined catch phrase: "Roosevelt and the World...