Word: patriotically
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Oregonian celebrated its 100th anniversary, it was the owners' turn to change. For more than $5,000,000 in cash, they sold all their stock to short (5 ft. 3 in.) Samuel I. Newhouse, 55, able owner of the Harrisburg (Pa.) News (circ. 85,363) and Patriot (circ. 31,249), the Syracuse (N.Y.) Herald-Journal (circ. 126,179) and Post-Standard (circ. 77,970) and a string of five other Eastern dailies. Said Newhouse happily: "Most of my papers were sick when I got them. The Oregonian is the first that is at the height of its power...
When a group of highstrung American Legionnaires in Dallas heard that Mezzo-Soprano Jennie Tourel was scheduled to be soloist in the cantata Alexander Nevsky, a eulogy to a 13th Century Russian patriot, they stirred up civic feeling against the lyrics. Everybody was happy after the word "Russians" was changed to "people," "Russian soil" to "fertile soil," "Russian valor" to "native valor...
This might sound like a bad break, but Tyrone has already established a lasting relationship with a French girl, Micheline Prelle, who is an ardent Philippine patriot. As it turns out, she is the wife of one of Leyte's leading planters and organizers of guerillas. This doesn't keep Ty from going to parties with her. And when her husband is killed by the Japanese, Miss Prclle moves right in with Mr. Power...
...Illinois society of the Sons of the American Revolution polled its members to see who should get the annual Patriotism Award, found 9 to 1 in favor of the Chicago Tribune's Colonel Robert ("Bertie") McCormick, the state's "greatest patriot of this generation...
...Communist-run Social Unity Party in East Berlin last week, German Communist Boss Otto Grotewohl launched a new "National Front." Standing below a picture of North Korean Premier Kim II Sung, Grotewohl announced that henceforth the German Communists would welcome anyone into their ranks. Said Grotewohl: "No patriot . . . will be excluded . . . Our National Front is not limited to democratic elements. We want everybody, including the former Nazis . . ." Old Frederick had been scooped up in an odd netful...