Word: homespun
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Homespun, frontier-born Dafoe distrusted noise, excitement and quick results. His tools were tireless industry, forceful writing, lust for information. He found his spiritual home in Winnipeg, when the Free Press's owner, Sir Clifford Sifton, gave him a free hand as editor. When Sir Clifford broke with Canada's great Liberal French leader, Laurier, on the issue of U.S.-Canadian reciprocity, Dafoe supported Laurier. But when Laurier failed to support conscription in World War I, Dafoe broke with him, threw the Free Press weight behind Conservative Sir Robert Borden...
Died. Charles ("Charlie") Ray, 52, homespun hero of the silent cinema; of a throat infection; in Hollywood. During the early '203 he blushed, grinned and gallus-thumbed his way into $100,000 a picture, spent much of his fortune on turquoise bathtubs, lost most of the remainder in his independent production of The Courtship of Miles Standish (1923). Penniless by 1934, he later accepted bit parts, tried to write scripts...
Last week husky, homespun R. J. Thomas, head of C.I.O.'s powerful United Automobile Workers, invaded Texas to test the law. In the little oil town of Pelly, he hoisted his 240 lb. to a platform, made an organizing speech while workers encouraged him with traditional Texas yells of "Pour it on 'em." Deputy Sheriff W. B. Milner whispered to Thomas' publicity man that "it wouldn't count" unless Thomas made a direct appeal to an individual. The publicity man passed up a note to his boss. Said he: "It's getting damned hard...
...year-old ex-advertising man, Lyman P. Wood, son-in-law of the World's Christian Endeavor Union's famed head, Dan Poling. Right-hand man and financial angel is another advertising man, Wallace R. Boren, 43-year-old author of "Wally's Wagon," a homespun philosophy column syndicated in 21 U.S. papers. Wood puts in full time with some 25 women clerical helpers; Boren does his stint evenings and weekends. Both are entirely sincere...
Fred Beck's column of homespun advertising in the Los Angeles Times has as many readers as Westbrook Pegler's column. This intense reader following has made a $5 million enterprise of the Los Angeles Farmers Market, which less than ten years ago was a vacant lot and an idea...