Word: bracken
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Cleon Skousen, a balding, bespectacled onetime FBIman who hit the anti-Communist circuit in earnest in 1960. after being fired from his job as Salt Lake City's police chief ("He operated the police department like a Gestapo." says Salt Lake City's conservative Mayor J. Bracken Lee). Skousen freely quotes the Bible, constantly plugs his book, The Naked Communist, presses for a full congressional investigation of the State Department...
...book is, in fact, rather upsetting. Mr. Wilson has in him the wit of a Kingsley Amis and the erudition of a Dorothy L. Sayers, but he will insist on writing by the standards of the bracken. He is, indeed, in danger of choking off these talents altogether; and that, of course, would be no small misfortunte...
Traverse City, Mich., Cherry County Playhouse: Eddie Bracken stars in Broadway's 1959 comedy, The Golden Fleecing...
Less than five months after he scored an astonishing political comeback, Salt Lake City's peppery Mayor J. Bracken Lee was beyond doubt the most unpopular man in town last week. University of Utah students hanged him in effigy, crowds booed and hissed him at city commission meetings, both Salt Lake City newspapers rapped him, and irate citizens set up in front of his house a burning cross inscribed, LEE, YOU ARE A FOOL. Reason for the outbursts: Lee had highhandedly fired respected Police Chief...
...tossed around vague charges that Skousen had been "insubordinate," but Skousen's real offense seemed to be that he had failed to show enough enthusiasm for Lee's determination to slash the police-department budget. Any interference with his nickel-nipping crusades stirs J. Bracken Lee, 61, to fuming anger. Sometime Republican Governor of Utah (1949-57), Lee ranks high among the obsessive budget-cutters of U.S. politics, keeps on his desk a paperweight inscribed G-D-TAXES. Since taking over as mayor last January, Lee has, among other things: ¶ Refused to pay a $29,000 bill...