Word: elwood
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...president, Charles P. Berger, Jr. '41, vice-president, and John W. Darr '42, secretary. The club boasts four talented accompanists, William W. Austin 2G, Edgar H. Sparks 1G., James J. Lawlor, Jr. '44, and John E. Reynolds '44. The managerial staff consists of Robinson Murray, Jr. '42, manager, Elwood Gaskill, graduate manager, and Edward Brooks, Jr. '44 and James D. Lowell '44, assistant managers...
...American war against the Soviet Union"-Daily Worker). But in a Washington that is far more conscious of politics than it is of the war, most of the talk of citizen to citizen raged on the question of Willkie and the Republican Party ("We leave the barefoot boy of Elwood . . . as a barefaced fraud"-Chicago Tribune...
Last summer it made arrangements to broadcast from Hyde Park and Elwood, Ind., in honor of the Presidential candidates. Unfortunately, after the Elwood show was set to go, Newschief Paul White of CBS, to which Vox Pop transferred in 1939, forbade any mention of Wendell Willkie, on the ground that his name was controversial. Obediently Interlocutors Johnson & Butterworth discussed with the citizens of Elwood the Tomato Festival then taking place. This went on until an old gaffer cackled: "Why don't you ask about the most important thing in Elwood-Wendell Willkie? Man and boy I've known...
Invariably his pugnacity and his conviction led him into trouble, whether it was in trying to paint his class numerals on an Elwood gastank or in delivering a valedictory address on the theme that the faculty was incompetent to teach law. In one case he got a broken arm; in the other his degree was withheld 24 hours...
Willkie, said the statement, was nominated "by the Hitler formula" with the calculating support of Isolationist Senator Arthur Vandenberg of Michigan, anti-New Deal Congressman Charles Halleck of Indiana, and Harold Stassen, "the Governor of the 'German' State of the Union-Minnesota." Elwood. Ind.. Willkie's birthplace, the statement went on, barred Negroes as residents, put up signs warning: "Nigger, Don't Let the Sun Go Down on You". The document quoted Harlan Miller, columnist on the Boston Traveler, as saying that Willkie's favorite crack under emotional stress...