Word: coons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week in Oregon, where partisanship has veiled the partnership program in obscurity, the issue came to life in a series of ten lively debates up and down the state between Democratic Senator Richard Neuberger and Republican Representative Sam Coon. Proposition: "The John Day* bill (introduced in the House last spring by Coon) is in the public interest...
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...Wives' Tale. In East Liverpool, Ohio, after he had been fined $50 and costs for blacking the eye of his estranged wife, Clarence Cobb complained to the judge: "She knew I was a coon hunter and a drinker before we were married, and she never said a word; afterward, it was just...
Wolf Roundup. But for most retailers the legal problems were small compared to the pleasurable problem of keeping up with demand. Coonskin hats, the biggest seller next to anachronistic Davy Crockett T shirts, have touched off the biggest run on raccoons since the giddy '205; coon tails once selling for 25? a Ib. are now nearly $5 a Ib. Seattle's Arctic Fur Co., which has shrewdly been buying wolf pelts for years, is producing 5,000 ersatz coonskin hats daily. In some stores Davy Crockett accounts for 10% of all children's wear...
...made the coon-fur fly when the morning and evening Baltimore Sun, for the first time in this century, decided to support the Republican mayoral candi date. The Sun attacked "complacency, bossism and corruption" in Baltimore, but Tommy D'Alesandro gleefully offered an other explanation for the switch: Sam Hopkins works as secretary and assistant treasurer of the Fidelity & Deposit Co., controlled by Harry Crawford Black, who is also principal owner of the A. S. Abell Co., publisher of the Sun. When the Sun came out for Hopkins, D'Alesandro stalked over to the editorial offices personally...