Word: wilbert
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...your Radio department (TIME, Sept. 15) you refer to the president of Mutual Broadcasting System as "ex-Chicago Tribune-man William E. Macfarlane." Mr. Macfarlane's first name is Wilbert, not William, and he is very far from an ex-Tribune man. He is the Chicago Tribune's Business Manager...
...Wilbert Lee ("Pass the Biscuits, Pappy") O'Daniel is Washington-bound, hillbilly band and all. In the closest State election ever held in Texas, Governor O'Daniel won the late Morris Sheppard's Senate seat by an unofficial margin of 1,095 votes...
...late Morris Sheppard's seat in the U.S. Senate. Lanky, 32-year-old Representative Lyndon Johnson, endorsed by President Roosevelt, started out with a seemingly secure 13,500-vote lead in a field of 25 candidates. But as the count piled up, folksy Governor Wilbert Lee ("Please Pass the Biscuits, Pappy") O'Daniel slowly ate into Lyndon Johnson's vanishing plurality...
...rowed and rowed westward, under a maddening heat. On the tenth day, the wireless operator died. Four men jumped overboard. Only men alive after 25 days were Able Seamen Wilbert Roy Widdicombe, 24, and Robert George Tapscott...
Mutual's General Manager Fred Weber denounced this as an attempt to "coerce, influence or restrain the free choice of action" of Mutual's affiliates. Mutual President Wilbert E. Macfarlane pled lengthily for ratification, while ASCAP officials lurked hopefully near by. Neville Miller's pleas and the opposition of John Shepard III, bulky, argumentative president of New England's Yankee and Colonial networks whose stations pipe in many a big-chain program, deadlocked the voters...