Word: sheppard
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Washington gossiped that one of the jobs, and the chairmanship, will go to Sam H. Husbands, 53, president of Defense Plant Corp. (RFC Boss Jesse Jones once said Husbands "knows more about banks than any man in the U.S.") Another job is expected to go to James Sheppard, Los Angeles attorney. Lieut. Colonel Joseph P. Woodlock, onetime executive of the Crucible Steel Co., now executive assistant to Will Clayton, is an outside choice for the third job. But Washington also gossiped that the President may soon ask Congress to junk the board and hand the job back...
...Nippers. In Harlem, William Sheppard Jr., 7, and his brother Ronald, 3, killed a half-pint of sherry which they found behind the stove, were discovered unconscious in their beds...
...Hershey, Neb., a town of about 500 people. Ben and his kid brother Fred (now overseas with an engineer outfit) volunteered for the Army two days after Pearl Harbor, were accepted a month later. Ben landed in the Air Forces and started to run his personal gantlet at Sheppard Field...
Reunion in Amarillo. To the White House went a plea from Widow Mary Phillips of Shawnee, Okla. Her twin sons, Bobby and Billy, 19, had enlisted together, had gone to Sheppard Field, Tex. for training together. Now for the first time in their lives, they had been separated. One had been transferred to Arizona, the other to Amarillo Field in Texas. Could they not please be reunited...
Married. Thomas Terry ("Tom") Connally, 64, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee; and Lucile Sanderson Sheppard, 51, widow of Morris Sheppard, late dry Senator from Texas; in New Orleans. Senator Connally had been a widower six years; Senator Sheppard died in April...