Word: bogeyman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Safe & sound sat Ohio full of colleges and memories of Presidents. But last week, in spite of its stout constitution and sound heredity, Ohio was scared stiff that it might be going crazy. What scared Ohio was not only a bogey called the Bigelow Plan. Worse was the bogeyman himself-Herbert Seely Bigelow...
Shaggy-haired, 69-year-old Bogeyman Bigelow was a Congregational minister who, after taking over a Cincinnati church in 1896, leased it to a burlesque house, later founded his own "People's Church." In 1917 he was horsewhipped for pacifist preachings. Cincinnati knows him chiefly as a chameleon of political thought. He has been a Coughlinite, a Townsendite, an Independent on the City Council, onetime Democratic candidate for Secretary of State, Republican candidate for a seat in the General Assembly, an elected Democrat to the Assembly, in 1936 an elected Democrat to Congress. Now he is mostly Bigelowite...
Chubby (George) Orson Welles, whose radio play War of the Worlds convinced many Jerseyites that Martians had captured Newark Airport, arrived there on a garbage truck after the taxi taking him to his plane broke down. Grateful for the ride, Bogeyman Welles cleaned up an old joke and remarked: "The driver was decent enough. When someone asked him what he had aboard, he said 'Actors and garbage.' That gave us top billing...
Orson Welles (Fri. 9 p. m. CBS), No. 1 U. S. Bogeyman, as radiominous Cap tain Bligh in Mutiny on the Bounty...
...Said Bogeyman Welles: ''Far from expecting the radio audience to take the program as fact rather than as a fictional presentation, we feared that the classic H. G. Wells fantasy . . . might appear too old-fashioned for modern consumption...