Word: brotherly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...toured the state's back parishes, sweating geniality, whomping out Dogpatch oratory, and invoking the magic name of brother Huey (whom he had called a "big-bellied coward" in 1931), the voters found him irresistible. In last week's run-off election, Louisiana gave him the greatest vote ever polled by one candidate-with 44 of 1,878 precincts still to be counted, his total was 422,766. Sam Houston ("Sad Sam") Jones, the "good government" candidate who had beaten Earl for the governorship in 1940 and broken the back of the old Huey Long machine, got only...
Nelson Rockefeller, 39-year-old elder brother of groom-of-the-year Winthrop, won a citation from the National Conference of Christians and Jews, for nice work in the field of human relations...
...Vienna, Joseph Mayerhofer, little-noted foster brother of Hitler, was sentenced to 18 months' imprisonment by a People's Court. The onetime colonel in the Brown Shirts was found guilty of having been a Nazi...
...bebop) and the British got only polite applause. But the festival's local wonder was an un known young (24) French clarinetist named Claude Luter. When Claude blew out Canal Street Blues and High Society and one of his own called Abouche, sentimental Drummer Baby Dodds (whose late brother Johnny played clarinet with King Oliver) said tearfully: "That kid is terrific. I'd almost think Johnny was playing." Shy, sandy-haired Clarinetist Luter, in fact, learned jazz during the war by listening to old King Oliver records...
...Father Kumalo one day comes a letter from a brother in Christ in a Johannesburg mission. The letter informs him that his younger sister, Gertrude, is very sick. He must go to Johannesburg...