Word: dufour
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...meeting in Witness R. W. Weaner's yard, a mob of 1,000 men, women & children had a truck filled with rotten vegetables ready. The Witnesses were pelted. Those who resisted were beaten. Finally the crowd set up two fire sirens 25 feet from where Witness J. R. Dufour was lecturing, turned them on full blast and drowned him out. Fifteen Witnesses were arrested (for distributing circulars without a license...
Masters of the Midway tells about Dufour & Rogers, the Belascos of outdoor entertainment. They rule "that curious world of 60,000 outdoor show people, the 'carnies,' who travel from town to town with carnivals." Ferocious Mr. Rogers and suave Mr. Dufour work their clients after the classical manner of detective teams, one rubber-hosing, the other soft-soaping. One of the more lucrative of their develop ments is the Aboriginal Village, on which the "nut" (overhead) is small "once the concessionaire has learned the fact, unreported by anthropologists, that all primitive peoples exist by preference on a diet...