Word: smith
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...TIME & LIFE'S 40 war correspondents are newsmen-six of them are newswomen: Mary Welsh, Margaret Bourke-White, Lael Tucker, Peggy Durdin, Shelley Smith Mydans, Annalee Jacoby...
...Died. Smith Wildman Brookhart, 75, chunky, teetotaling, tobacco-shunning, onetime Republican Senator from Iowa, Farm Bloc regular, Soldier Bonus plugger, expert rifleman and early advocate of recognizing Russia; in Prescott, Arizona...
Died. Ellison DuRant ("Cotton Ed") Smith, 80, walrus-mustached, unreconstructed Democratic Senator from South Carolina for 35 years (longest consecutive Senatorial term in U.S. history); of coronary thrombosis; in Lynchburg, S.C. Perched on cotton bales in a mule-drawn wagon, Cotton Ed galumphed through South Carolina, roaring his belief that in his God-blessed state a family could have security on 50? a day. A pain in the New Deal's side, he championed "white supremacy," the poll tax, states' rights. Last July, roundly trounced in the Democratic primaries by Governor Olin Johnston, he returned to his dirt...
Based on Sally Benson's New Yorker stories, Meet Me in St. Louis has a good deal more substance and character than most musicals. It is the story of the well-heeled Smith family during the summer and fall and winter of 1903 and, more particularly, of the four Smith Sisters...
...Webb Smith "Posting as a peon down on the border just for laughs...