Word: servante
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Michigan voters were embarrassed by their riches. For Senator they had to choose between statesmanlike Democrat Prentiss Marsh Brown, generally rated one of the dozen ablest men on Capitol Hill, and famed racket-busting Republican Judge Homer Ferguson, a great & good public servant. For Governor, they had their choice of big, able, incumbent Democrat Murray Delos Van Wagoner, or big, able Republican Secretary of State Harry F. Kelly, one of the most popular politicos Michigan ever...
...years shrewd Sir Arthur Tedder has been in aviation. Before he joined the infant Royal Flying Corps in 1916, he had just been an English gentleman, a graduate of Cambridge's Magdalene College (where he became an avid reader of Shakespeare), a rugby player, a colonial servant of the Empire stationed at Fiji, and a soldier in the Dorsetshire Regiment. But military aviation seized his intense mind and has occupied it ever since...
...outwit the servant shortage, League meetings are planned for evenings when undrafted fathers can care for children. Some Leagues have arranged day care for members' children so that mothers can continue their volunteer service when they have no nurses...
...increase, especially in manufacturing centers. Weekend trade is up because servicemen meet relatives in town to make the most of short leaves. In good part the stacked bags at the front desk are also due to war workers checking in for a good time, to fuel rationing, to the servant problem, to the breakup of families when husbands go to war-and to the Government, which has reduced competition in the hotel business...
...Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria advertised: "While the United Nations are fightmg for the 'Four Freedoms' on a worldwide front, the Waldorf-Astoria offers you these Four Freedoms on the Home Front: Freedom from servant problems! Freedom from transit problems! Freedom from maintenance problems! Freedom from ownership problems!" (Croaked the liberal New Republic: ". . . an outrageous and inexcusable vulgarization and commercialization of President Roosevelt's famous phrase...