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These startling statistics were headlined last week by the newspaper PM, which stated that it backed them with a study made by OPA. Run with a cartoon showing a stout gentleman in a frock coat with an American flag in one hand and a bag of money in the other, the figures purported to be a damning indictment of the U.S. business profiteer...
...gyms in Philadelphia and Manhattan. Unknown in the U.S., he went to the British Isles in 1900, knocked out the British heavyweight and middleweight champs, came home in 1902 with a mighty reputation, a small fortune, 18 trunks, 72 sets of red-and-blue silk underwear, a top hat, frock coat, and a rococo vocabulary. He won the light-heavyweight championship from Bob Fitzsimmons, who was 44 at the time, and hit him only once in 13 rounds. O'Brien batted 21-year-old Middleweight Stanley Ketchel around for eight rounds in 1909, when O'Brien...
...press rushed to the fore the gaunt, sourpuss, frock-coated figure of Old Man Prohibition. One cartoon showed him with a dishonorable discharge (1933) in his pocket, squatting under an umbrella in the halls of Congress; the heading said: "Tenting on the old Camp Ground!" (see cut, p. 23). He pointedly reminded Americans of their "noble experiment." To jar further the memories of the forgetful, the New York World-Telegram began reprinting news stories of the 19205. One from Aurora, 111.: "State dry agents today stormed the home of Joseph De King, 40, after bombarding it with gas bombs, killed...
...loose blue shirt, open at the neck, and from sunrise to sundown, except for the hour of his nap, he would plow and hoe cotton, pull fodder, thin corn. . . . On Saturdays, the year round, he would put on a white shirt with a black shoestring tie and a black frock coat and black trousers and would drive in to the Courthouse in the carriage to attend to public affairs." He "regarded office-holding in an old-fashioned manner: it was a duty...
...With him was the Rev. Russell J. Clinchy. In a hall the orchestra began the Lohengrin wedding march, dramatically stopped after the first four chords. Quick-smiling Mrs. Louise Macy entered on the arm of her brother-in-law, Navy Lieutenant Nicholas Ludington. She wore a simple deep-blue frock, with a matching halo hat that trailed a dark, waist-length veil. Her bouquet was purple orchids and delphiniums...