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Along with poultry, Guy Leader developed a lifelong interest in politics, became a local Democratic leader (York County, resting on the Mason-Dixon line, has always been sympathetic to the Democratic Party). It was only natural that his seven children should consume large slabs of politics along with the eppel sas kuuche, schmierkäse and Lebanon baloney at their father's groaning dinner table. As a teenager, George chauffeured voters on Election Day, and while he was in college, he "worked the polls" for his sister-in-law's father, who was running for the York County...
...When I read of your 'human' deeds toward 'distressed German youth' and of how your new worshipers applauded you, I knew that in your audience there must have sat those two passionate lovers of music, Eppel and Kempke-SS men from the Kurewitz camp near Lemberg-who liked to have us sing while they shot our brothers down. . . . Wherever you travel our newspaper will follow you like a curse until your conscience awakes...
Last week Harry Truman found himself saddled with a theme song, too. When he stepped from his plane at San Francisco, the band wobbled through The Missouri Waltz. When he went to Independence, The Missouri Waltz (which was originally composed by an lowan, John Valentine Eppel) followed him. The Chicago publishers had to fill a rush order for scores from Missouri when the President got back home...
Irish Destiny is a film made in Ireland by Dr. I. J. Eppel. It records with bungling artistry but unmistakable sincerity the struggle between the Irish Republican Army and the British Black-and-Tans during the bitter squabbles of 1916-22. Most interesting are pictures of the escape of 200 prisoners from Curragh Prison Camp, the burning of the Dublin Customs House, street fighting in the city. In spite of paucity of entertainment, the film holds the attention of those whose feelings are swayed by political, racial considerations...