Word: carls
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Wolf Perry. Lutheran Rev. Reginald Beasil Naugle specializes in fighting labor unions, and last week he cried, "We're in Russia now!" after persons unknown smashed a door glass and window of his house by hurling milk bottles. And Philadelphia is also the home of Episcopal Rev. David Carl Colony, who last week performed the latest of the exploits which make conservative members of his church shake their heads...
...Louis, controversy raged over designs by Swedish Sculptor Carl Milles for a $60,000 fountain in Aloe Plaza across from Union Station. Last February aged Art Dealer Francis D. Healy, chairman of the Municipal Art Commission, first saw clay models of Sculptor Milles' Wedding of the Mississippi and Missouri Rivers reproduced in LIFE, grumbled that the fountain group would be better named "Wedding in a Nudist Colony." Commissioner Hubert Hoeflinger, onetime tailor, agreed that the Milles tritons should be trousered. Awarded a contract in April 1936, and warmly supported by other members of the Commission, Sculptor Milles worked...
...There early last month three men were fatally shot in a midnight massacre which will probably get as earnest attention from the La Follette committee as the Chicago affair. Massillon's Police Chief Stanley W. Switter testified that Republic's manager in the Canton-Massillon area, Carl Meyers, had asked him early in the strike "why the hell we didn't take action such as the Chicago police did and put 'em where they belong." Manager Meyers, it appeared, was in a temper, having been inadvertently shot by one of his own company guards...
Arrival in Little Rock brought a new element into the picture. Mr. Farley had wired ahead to Arkansas' Governor Carl E. Bailey and rushed off to a breakfast appointment to urge him to appoint at once a pro-Administration Senator in Joe Robinson's place. This was a delicate problem because Governor Bailey has his eye on the seat and must soon call a special election to fill it. Already it had been suggested that he appoint Widow Ewilda Robinson, which would make Arkansas the first State to have an all-female representation in the Senate, since Arkansas...
Typical of Poet Millay's ingenuity is the history-in-miniature effect gained by having Father Anselmo go home early, leaving the conversation to circle through such topics as Romantic Love, the Supreme Court, the Past, toward ever more pointed conflict between Broker Merton and Communist Carl. Finally the latter says...