Word: smith
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...SMITH Oakland, Calif...
...Color. In Redwood City, Calif., Donald Brown sued Binney & Smith Co., crayon manufacturers, for $35,243, complained that after his young son ate some of the crayons his body turned blue and his blood chocolate brown...
Such oratory did no more than fray congressional tempers. When Michigan's Bartel J. Jonkman proposed that the amount of aid be cut to $290 million, he was routed by a vote of 171 to 78. When Wisconsin's Lawrence Smith, with the backing of Charlie Halleck, proposed a $90 million cut, he could muster only 47 ayes to 147 noes. When Oklahoma's Glen D. Johnson, a heretical Democrat, moved to recommit (and thus kill) the bill, he was howled down. Finally, late one afternoon, Speaker Joe Martin took the entire House by surprise...
...agreeable group calling itself the Society for the Betterment of the Human Race picked three men and three women who have, it announced, the "natural endowments" to be the ideal "eugenic parents." The perfect ancestors turned out to be Cinemactors Clark Gable and Burt Lancaster, Radio Singer Jack Smith, and Jane Russell, Betty Grable, Linda Darnell...
...Home Companion what she would do "if I were president of a men's college." Said she: "It is just as important to teach the fundamentals of home economics, budgeting, marriage and child psychology to students at Yale, Harvard and Princeton as to those of Vassar, Smith and Bryn Mawr. After all, it takes two persons to make a family...