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Word: vardaman (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Colonel Richard Park Jr. of the regular Army with Colonel Harry H. Vaughan, emergency officer and World War I comrade of Captain Harry S. Truman, Battery D, 129th Field Artillery. Last week the President announced that his new Naval aide (replacing Vice Admiral Wilson Brown) was Captain James K. Vardaman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.S. At War: Precedents Up & Down | 5/14/1945 | See Source »

There was the instructive memory of the time Percy Sr. ran against Demagogue James K. Vardaman for the U. S. Senate. Vardaman, who looked "like a top-notch medicine man," stood for the poor white against the "nigger." "He was not a moral idiot of genius like Huey Long; he was merely an exhibitionist playing with fire." When Percy Sr. won, they tried to pin a bribery charge on him. It was quickly disproved, but the man who made the charge went on shouting the lie from every platform in Mississippi. He "was a pert little monster, glib and shameless...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Remembrance of Things Past | 3/24/1941 | See Source »

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