Word: fremont
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...discussion from the floor, it appeared that about half the churchmen were dead set against it. Cried Lutheran Pastor Ernest Edwin Ryden of Rock Island, Ill.: "[It] would divide the world into two armed camps. It would sign the death warrant of the United Nations!" Said the Rev. Ernest Fremont Tittle, famed pacifist pastor of the Evanston (Ill.) First Methodist Church: "It is aggressive to Russia-just as a similar alliance between Russia and Latin America would appear aggressive to the American people...
Later he was a protégé of famed Editor Fremont Older. When Older became convinced that Tom Mooney (whom he disliked) had been railroaded to jail for the Preparedness Day bombing of 1916, the Bulletin's bosses refused to back up their editor. W. R. Hearst sent Older a wire: COME TO THE CALL. BRING THE MOONEY CASE WITH YOU. Older took Johnny Bruce with him too, and Bruce dug up the evidence that eventually helped free Mooney...
Died. Weston B. ("Bert") Hall,* 62, colorful, Missouri-born flying soldier of fortune and a founder of the famed Lafayette Escadrille in World War I; of a heart attack; in Fremont, Ohio. In his 20 years as a mercenary, Hall flew for six nations but never for the U.S., in 1933 was jailed for 2½ years when as an adviser to the Chinese Nationalist air force (he called himself General Chan), he was convicted of taking off with...
...Senator Joe McCarthy. While they stumped on their own, Stassen kept rolling: to a breakfast of the Platte County Republicans at Columbus (where he promised the Midwest a Secretary of Agriculture); to Norfolk (where he plumped for the inclusion of farm labor costs in parity prices) ; to Fremont (where he backed the Pick-Sloan plan for developing the Missouri River Valley, called for outlawing of the Communist party). He even found time to go to a Shrine circus...
...make the pledges stick, all strikers were placed on probation for the rest of the year, seniors were barred from extracurricular activities. Although Principal Wood knew that the roots of trouble were still there, Fremont breathed somewhat easier...