Word: archer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...crazy, disorganized hillside ceremony in which the entire town of Buddy, Calif., comes to cheer its boy Vic off to the nationals. Vic sees it all as a shuck, refuses to go and hits the road out of town, pursued by his new fiancee Drenna Valentine (Anne Archer), who talks very sincerely in movie-magazine captions: "And the dumb part is I really do understand and don't really expect you to jump on any white horse and carry...
...JULES ARCHER...
Obviously the plot failed. Jules Archer, journalist-historian, supplies some fascinating details that make the episode considerably more than a paranoid fantasy. In 1933 emissaries purporting to represent an organization called the American Liberty League approached a retired Marine general named Smedley Darlington Butler. The League was devoted to laissez-faire capitalism and backed by such people as the Du Ponts and J.P. Morgan. The general was offered an extravagant budget - $3,000,000 for starters, with a possible $300 million if necessary - to mobilize an army of 500,000 veterans and lead them to Washington, there to force Roosevelt...
Another problem was that the whole thing seemed too preposterous a plan to be taken seriously. And it was never decided whether the important figures of finance knew what was being proposed on their behalf. The American Liberty League was finally disbanded in 1936. But Author Archer believes the plot was in earnest - and so did John McCormack, who once told Archer: "They were going to make it all sound constitutional, of course, with a high-sounding name for the dictator and a plan to make it all sound like a good American program...
Freedom from Frills. Like Thomas E. Colvin, the naval architect who designed and built the lovely junk-rigged schooner Gazelle, the men who drew the lines of all these boats are men whose restless imaginations were shaped by the same traditions that molded Colin Archer-the traditions and demands of the sea. Simplicity, sturdiness and an utter freedom from frills are the hallmark of their work...