Word: baptiste
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...peripatetic minister's son, Maxwell Anderson was born in 1888 at Atlantic, a little crossroads town in western Pennsylvania. His Baptist father moved the family from pastorate to pastorate through Pennsylvania, Ohio, Iowa, North Dakota. Young Anderson graduated from the University of North Dakota in 1911, taught briefly in the public schools in that State, tried to write and finally moved away because his efforts to make lignite coal burn wearied him. He went to California, reported for San Francisco newspapers, was an English instructor at Stanford. At 46, he still has the slightly unkempt appearance, the tolerant smile...
...most picturesque politician is Olin R. Holt, a thickset, debonair bachelor of 39 who wears horn-rimmed glasses and dresses to the nines. In 1924 he was out for Indiana's Governorship with Ku Klux Klan support. Denied the Democratic nomination, he returned home to cultivate his Baptist and American Legion following, build a local machine. In 1930 his political activities were interrupted by the Department of Justice, which found that Lawyer Holt and the Howard County sheriff had organized a "Hoosier Protective Association" which assessed local bootleggers $3 a week in return for legal aid if and when...
William Edward Dodd. the fighting North Carolina Baptist who is U. S. Ambassador to Germany, got orders from the State Department last week "to proceed actively to clarify the status" of Miss Isobel Lillian Steele, a U. S. citizen who had sat incommunicado for 88 days in a Nazi jail. The German Government refused to tell Ambassador Dodd what charges have been made against Miss Steele. To her friends, however, there was no great mystery about why Isobel is in trouble...
Mack Sennett had a big voice, but he found it easier to get a job in a choir than on the stage of the Metropolitan. Once when he was singing in John D. Rockefeller Sr.'s Baptist Church his thunderous diapason is said to have made the old tycoon whisper to a retainer: "Did you bring an umbrella?" From choir-singing Sennett drifted into burlesque, then heard there were jobs to be had in the infant cinema industry. He was a member of David Wark Griffith's Biograph troupe when it went to Los Angeles...
...weeks we have listened to the voice of John the Baptist Pecora crying in the wilderness of Wall Street, "repent ye, for manipulation is no more". It will be interesting in view of the marked evidence of pool manipulation during the past ten days in certain stocks so happily designated by the noted British economist Angas as "rubbish" shares, to note what action, if any, the Securities Commission will take. Or, maybe only "manipulation" for a decline is to be censured. An interesting stock to watch is McLellan Stores, which, in the midst of, or emerging from reorganization activities...