Word: chickens
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that something this big would happen!" burbled bustling Mrs. A. Burks Summers, peering through the smoky, klieg-lighted glare of Washington's Uline Arena at some 12,000 happy Republicans. Senators, Congressmen and plain citizens, they filled every seat, sat cross-legged on the concrete floor, munched the chicken legs of the new "poor man's" Lincoln Day box supper (cost $1), danced to Fred Waring's orchestra, sang with Cinemactor George Murphy, shouted themselves hoarse. Cried G.O.P. Chairman Guy Gabrielson: "From this night on, the Republican Party is going to be the strongest, most active...
...stop, the blue shirts piled out shouting: "Farmer Fritz Merkel is a doppelzüngiger Reaktionär (two-timing reactionary)." Two trucks that followed disgorged half-frightened, vodka-drunk workers. On Communist orders, they rushed out to Fritz merkel's farm, smashed and scattered farm tools, opened chicken coops and rabbit hutches. some of them broke down the heavy door of the farmhouse and seized Farmer Merkel. He was beaten and kicked until he signed a paper admitting that he was a "saboteur" and agreed to resign his local offices n the Christian Democratic Party. that night, Merkel...
...Congressman J. Parnell Thomas, the apoplectic former chairman of the House Un-American Activities Committee now serving six to 18 months for payroll padding, was reported in charge of the prison's chicken flock at Danbury, Conn, and earnestly studying ways & means of increasing its dwindling egg production...
...Creamed Chicken. In many ways Kenneth Oberholtzer is a schoolman's schoolman. The son of a Western school superintendent, he was a mild-mannered boy, so shy and studious that his hearty father eventually gave him the same nickname that early Denver gave Sligoman Gold-rick, "the Professor." School was his life. In the fifth grade, he fell for his first girl, a curly-headed classmate named Florence; 14 years later he married her. At the University of Illinois he decided to make education his career, later went on for a Ph.D. at Columbia University's Teachers College...
Denver liked him at once. And Oberholtzer felt right at home in the life of superintendent, eating creamed chicken out of patties at Rotary Club luncheons, chatting at P.T.A. teas, eating high-school meals served by home-economics students. Through it all he moved diplomatically, remembered janitors' names, shook hundreds of hands, and answered smilingly to "Dr. Oberholtzer," "Kenneth" or "Ken" as the case might...