Word: wilsons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Henry L Mencken, now 65 ("an obscene age"), but lacking none of his long time gusto for word-slinging, zipped a few to Earl Wilson, "saloon editor" of the New York Post, who relayed some choice Menckenisms. Samples...
...Woodrow Wilson: "a Presbyterian baboon"; Herbert Hoover: "a superior bookkeeper"; Harry Truman: "an 8th Ave. haberdasher"; Douglas MacArthur: "a big show-off"; Henry Mencken: "I guess I'm an old cadaver...
While historians speculated, Washington acted. Retiring War Secretary Stimson and Navy Secretary Forrestal wrote a joint letter to President Truman, recalling that President Woodrow Wilson had personally chosen "the World War" as World War I's official name. To Harry Truman they recommended "as a matter of simplicity and to insure uniform terminology" the term "World War II." The phrase had been used, they said, "in at least seven public laws [and] has been accepted by common usage." Last week their letter, stamped "Approved" by President Truman, duly appeared in the official Federal Register, henceforth will set usage...
...Mutual microphone stepped Captain Eddie Rickenbacker, to help auction off four pairs of Nylons, a Persian lamb coat, a bat autographed by Babe Ruth. They were some of the sideline booty (besides $105.000) which a sympathetic U.S. public has showered on Pfc. James Wilson, who lost both hands & feet in a plane crash. Private Wilson wanted to sell off his presents to give the proceeds to a hospital pal - a triple amputee...
Facsimile Service. In New Orleans, Sally Rand, Woodrow Wilson, Gloria Swanson, Marion Davies, Robert Taylor, Gracie Allen and Anne Morrow Lindbergh were working at various local restaurants...