Word: stewart
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Guinea were treated at long intervals to grey-bearded hits like Broadway Bill. Now they get some new films (their favorites are musicals, especially the Crosby-Hope-Lamour circuses). The man who brought the movies to the jungle is New Guinea's Red Cross Field Director, Jimmy Stewart (not to be confused with Cinemactor Jimmy Stewart, now a lieutenant in the Army Air Corps...
Like many another American, Jimmy Stewart was always restless. He quit Schenectady's Union College after a year, dabbled-and fumbled-in Florida real estate. At last he settled down to a mildly lucrative ice business in Oneonta, N.Y. When it looked unlikely that he would be drafted (he is 37, has a wife and two sons), Jimmy Stewart enlisted as a driver for the British American Ambulance Corps in Libya...
Back in the U.S., Jimmy Stewart volunteered for Brigadier General Chennault's Flying Tigers. He was on his way, at sea, on Dec. 7. So were several Red Cross men. When the ship reached Australia he volunteered for Red Cross service at Port Moresby...
Unpatriotic is the mildest adjective possible for the pro-poll-tax Senators' use of the cherished right to filibuster. The tactics that made filmland's Senator Jimmie Stewart a hero in "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington" put real-life Senator Bilbo and his fourteen-odd accomplices in far more villainous roles. As vital Axis propaganda material they hold the center of the world stage. It is up to the American people to hiss them...
...buddy, Silver Stewart, we worked together, and my brother Fred was with us some of the time. Stew would kick in a door while I covered it with my tommy gun. Stew sure kicked in them doors. Jeeze, he was a good guy. Then he took a wounded man down to the beach and I lost him. He got hit and died on the last boat going back to England. I worked on alone from 8 to 11 o'clock. Jeeze, Stew and I got a couple of Germans that were waiting in a doorway with grenades for some...