Word: franklyn
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Baptist Minister John Franklyn Norris, of Detroit and Fort Worth, who once attracted wide attention, even in secular circles, by shooting to death an unarmed political enemy (he pleaded self-defense, won an acquittal), turned up at the Vatican. Norris read Pius XII a statement deploring Baptist protests against the friendly exchange of letters between the White House and the Vatican, later reported to the press a jolly conversation. He told the Pope, said he, that U.S. Baptists were really afraid the Pope might make a Roman Catholic out of Baptist Harry S. Truman. The Pope, said Norris, threw...
...there was one churchman the Southern Baptists didn't want to see at their convention in St. Louis last week, it was the Rev. John Franklyn Norris. But there he was, as usual, bigger and louder than life...
...Ottawa, where squatter chief Franklyn E. Hanratty's Veterans' Housing League had won considerable man-in-the-street support and a measure of respectability, people took a new and harder look at his organization. The Ottawa Journal thought it saw some Communists in the membership, and said so. Ottawa's Citizen wagged a warning finger about Communist "disrupting of established order...
Ottawa's squatting veterans got rough. Led by fiery half-pint Franklyn Edward Hanratty, president of the Veterans' Housing League, 500 vets and spectators massed in Victoria Park last week, their furniture piled in 20 trucks. In the quiet of the supper hour, they tootled off in search of housing. They made a feint at the well-protected R.C.A.F barracks downtown, then headed for the Navy's wartime barracks - H.M.C.S. Carleton - on Ottawa's outskirts near Dow's Lake...
...roomy brick houses invitingly vacant. This was just what 150 war vets, who had formed the Veterans' Housing League, had been waiting for. They had failed in all the usual approaches to the Government to find adequate housing. The day after the CWACs cleared out, V.H.L. Leader Franklyn Edward Hanratty, a pint-sized pepper pot who flew 48 R.C.A.F. missions, handed an ultimatum to Ottawa's Mayor Stanley Lewis to do something about housing or else. The Mayor sat tight. At dusk eleven vets, their wives and 18 children rumbled out to Kildare Barracks in trucks. They unloaded...