Word: silver
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Birthday. John Joseph Pershing, his 80th. After Franklin Roosevelt had presented him the only military award he had not previously received, the Distinguished Service Cross, the erect, silver-haired, kindly-faced old man walked into his darkened War Department office. On its walls hung oil portraits of the five U. S. Generals of the Armies: Washington, Grant, Sherman, Sheridan, Pershing. On its neat, massive desk stood a single memento: an old World Series baseball with fading autographs. Quizzed by a battery of surrounding newshawks, he had slow, measured words of hope for the British. Later, in a broadcast...
...Beaver says his men are efficient. They complain that he has stolen publicity from other Ministries with stunts such as his aluminum-collecting campaign, is tight with legitimate ministerial news. The Beaver says: "My job is to produce airplanes, not publicity." He picked his own public-relations man, silver-haired, hard-boiled J. B. Wilson of the Express, to filter news from his Ministry, not to funnel...
...started because bombastic Ben Paris, owner of Seattle's biggest sporting-goods stores, thought he was selling far too few fishing rods. The commercial fishermen, he argued, were snaring the great silver horde before the fish had a chance to get into Puget Sound or the inland lakes and streams. "Give the salmon back to the sportsman!" he shouted - so loud and so long (and at the right people) that the State Legislature five years ago outlawed commercial salmon traps in Puget Sound.* That boosted the salmon derby Ben Paris had started, with the aid of the Seattle Star...
When meek, ascetic little Sir Sri Krishnaraja Wadiyar Bahadur died last month (TIME, Aug. 12) he left no son to succeed him as Maharaja of Mysore. Last week Mysore bedecked itself for a two-day religious ceremony, watched a procession of bejewelled elephants, a solid silver coach. Occasion: coronation of its new Maharaja, Sri Jaya Chamaraja Wadiyar Bahadur, son of Krishnaraja's late hard-drinking playboy brother, Kanthirava...
...jibed: "The Post-Dispatch of that day was the Columbian Centinel of Boston, and its conduct is described in five words by Claude Bowers in Jefferson in Power: 'The Columbian Centinel went mad.' . . . [The Centinel declared] that Jefferson had given away 'nearly all the gold and silver in the United States.' And for what? 'Wild land.' Land of which 'we do not want a foot.' Jefferson, it moaned, 'had run in debt for Mississippi moonshine $15,000,000. . . . There were appeasers...