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...Stamford, Conn., an AWOL soldier, with a coat bearing the name Doak and a bracelet identifying him as Leslie Tripp, was reported to have ad mitted that though he had last married under the name Arthur R. Daly, he was actually John R. Schwartz...
...Sunland, Calif., Church Member William Doak advertised a revival at Evangelist Harry O. Anderson's Baptist Church by dressing up like the devil, picketing the church. He paraded with a sign: "Anderson's program unfair to me and my friends. This institution entices my servants away. Local No. 666, Union of Amalgamated Beelzebubs...
...witty, gay, Edda Ciano has little respect for the conventions. In Shanghai she picked up much U. S. slang from Navy officers' wives and subsequently shocked many a diplomatic dowager with her indiscriminate use of "boloney." Once she surprised Sir Eric Drummond (now Lord Perth) by saying "Oakie doak, Sir Eric!" Her first-born child, Fabrizio, she nicknamed the "Little Chink." She caused an uproar at a full-dress diplomatic dinner in Peking by showing up in a tailored suit while her husband wore a dinner coat...
Back in Rome, the Cianos started cutting a social swath and Edda surprised the British colony with the "English" she had learned from U. S. Marine officers' wives in Shanghai. One of the Countess' expressions was "oakie doak." Her husband at this time became Il Capo del Officia Stampa del Capo del Governo (The Head of the Press Office of the Head of the Government), later was given the rank of Minister for Press & Propaganda. He never could understand why foreign correspondents do not write with the same pro-Fascist zeal which came naturally to him when...
Died. Ethelbert Stewart, 79, longtime (1887-1932) authoritative U. S. Labor Department statistician; of coronary thrombosis; in Washington. Rebuked for disputing Secretary of Labor William Nuckles Doak's optimistic statement that employment was rising in 1932, he retired, drawled: "I have had a tin can tied to the end of my coattail...