Word: fathers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...years ago Thomas Benton wrote an autobiography (An Artist in America) telling what he knew about the U. S. Few artists have seen as much. Benton looked on in awe at his father's breakfast table 40 years ago as the Great Commoner, William Jennings Bryan, engulfed one poached egg on half a baked potato at every bite. He lived in raw Chicago in 1907-08, brawled and bragged among the artists of Greenwich Village and Montparnasse, worked in a Norfolk shipyard in the War, bummed thousands of miles through the South and West with...
...promising young rider since Earl Sande hung up his tack, 17-year-old Johnny Oros did not grow up on horseback, like most jockeys. Until four years ago the nearest he came to a horse was the shanks' mare on which he used to deliver groceries for his father's little emporium in Aurora, Ill. When Father Oros decided to trade his grocery store for a stable of third-rate thoroughbreds, Johnny learned to ride a horse...
...Charles Edward Coughlin picketed radio stations which decline to sell time to the radio priest; sat in a Manhattan courtroom where a Jew was arraigned for interfering with the sale of Social Justice in the subway; heckled a Jew who charged, at a legislative hearing in Boston, that Father Coughlin uses Nazi propaganda material. Militant Coughlinites wear three kinds of buttons: one showing their leader's picture, the others the cross of the "Christian Front." The latter organization was founded by the Paulist Fathers, who disowned it when it became anti-Semitic...
...heart, Reformer Howard last February visited a Bingo hot spot, Rochester, N. Y., where he once lived after amassing a modest fortune as a picture-frame salesman. For Progress, organ of his Federation, the Little Giant wrote: "This is Rochester under the benign administration of Bishop Kearney, and Rev. Father Charles J. Bruton, who is quoted as boasting that he had cleaned up $65.000 as the share of St. Margaret Mary Catholic Church from Bingo. Can we be surprised that suggestions have been received at this office from Rochester that the new Supreme Pontiff shall be called Pope Bingo...
...desperate attempt of the average student to find some order in the chaos which a series of disorganized and pedestrian lectures leaves him" which drives a student to tutoring schools, according to one letter. A father bemoans the fact that a professor refused his Freshman son needed aid, forcing him to a tutoring school. Two Freshmen accuse the University of ignoring the problem which first year men meet in organizing their work and in facing an entirely new system. Others lambaste excessive and dull reading lists...