Word: sweethearts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...also serves as member of the Economic Stabilization Board, the State Department's Economic Policy Committee and the Management-Labor advisory committees of WPB and WMC. A vigorous but discriminating critic, he remains on good personal terms with most New Dealers and labor leaders. Mrs. Johnston, a boyhood sweetheart, spends about a third of the year with him in his Mayflower Hotel apartment, the rest in Spokane where their daughters Harriet, 17, and Elizabeth, 13, are in high school. Johnston tries to get home one week in every eight...
...stiffly in straight-backed chairs, listening uncomprehendingly. Then up to the platform stepped Staff Sergeant Howard Hiroki, veteran of the South Pacific, to interpret the officer's words. Sixteen Japanese-Americans in the audience stood up. To each of them was given a Purple Heart, as wife, sweetheart or next-of-kin of a Japanese-American boy killed in Italy...
...sweetheart of World War II was on her way to another front-the Caribbean. When Frances Langford gets there the next week or so, she can expect the same kind of admiration she has inspired in homesick doughboys from Alaska to Sicily. No other female entertainer in World War II can touch it. "She knows just how much sex to pour and still be dignified," is Bob Hope's explanation. General Eisenhower, who has misgivings about women entertainers at the front, was so moved by her impact upon his North African troops that he thanked her warmly, "especially...
Florida Peach. Nothing in Frances Langford's 29 years prepared her for her sweetheart role. Daughter of a Lakeland, Fla., building contractor and a concert pianist, she wanted to be an opera singer but not enough − the formalities bored...