Word: wakeful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Naval and Military Order of the U.S.W.V., an outfit of former officers, set the tone. Said its retiring commander, 78-year-old Patrick Ratigan: "Remember the Maine? If we were not skeptical of the Russians and everybody took a noncommittal attitude like we did with Spain . . . we'd wake up some morning and learn that we'd lost more than a boat." Cried the Order's new commander, 71-year-old J. Clark Mansfield: "Teddy Roosevelt would have rolled up his sleeves, pulled Joe Stalin across the conference table by the mustache and told Stalin...
...lapse did not escape the eye of William Randolph Hearst, who seldom waits for a paper to get into trouble before jacking it up. A fortnight ago, in the wake of the merger of the tabloid Chicago Times with Marshall Field's Sun (TIME, Aug. 4), a shakeup hit the Herald's top brass. Chicago-trained, cigar-chomping George Ashley De Witt came on from Washington as executive editor-the job once held by loud Lou Ruppel, who got in bad with the Chief by branding Chicago "Dirty Shirt Town." Drawling Lou Shainmark came back from the Washington...
Robert R. Young, who knows a lot about railroads and publicity, fired another broadside last week in his campaign to "wake up the railroads." This time, his full-page ads talked about the freight-car shortage which leaves wheat piled on the ground in the Midwest. Young thought the shortage could be lessened if the roads made better use of the cars they have...
...Iowa farmers rounded up by the American Farm Bureau Federation plunked down $1,500 apiece for a four weeks' flying trip to Great Britain and the continent. Said 58-year-old Otis Tuttle of Norway, Iowa: "I am satisfied it will be worth the chips. It might wake us up to the fact that America has a responsibility over there. If Europe isn't brought back on its feet, it will be just too bad for America...
...Metromen who wanted to set up a rival to Lolly Parsons. Hedda's first columns were terrible too. Hedda was too nice to people. "Look," Dema told her, "as long as everybody says you're fine, I like you, you're going to starve to death. Wake up. Be yourself." So Hedda honed her talons...