Word: hometowner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...jobs, suddenly decides to go straight. A fellow of huge frame and equally mighty enthusiasms, he turns over his new page with all the gusto of a Billy Sunday, joins prison Bible classes, uplifts fellow convicts. The reform of so notable a character attracts wide attention, and soon newspapers, hometown politicians, even a Senator join in a successful campaign for his release. Paroled, Kip Caley strides out into the world again, too happy in his freedom, too exalted by his recent conversion to do more than burble: "I want to be a good man, to fit into things...
...this week with experienced little Helen Ford (No Other Girl, Dearest Enemy, Peggy-Ann) in the title role of Director William Miles's new adaptation of Sacha Guitry's and Oscar Straus's musical, Mariette. Mr. Miles expected heavy attendance from Miss Ford's nearby hometown of Troy...
...inmates were fighting not only flood but fire on a two-mile front. By vote of the city council. City Manager C. A. Dykstra was given dictatorial powers to deal with the situation as he thought best. Property damage: $5,000,000. Indiana. Evansville, Funnyman Joe Cook's hometown, was made base of the Coast Guard's relief forces. While 40 horses were rescued from the Dade Park race track, amphibians roared in from the Atlantic coast and radio-equipped surf boats arrived from the Chicago station. Indianapolis diked itself in after a body was seen floating down...
Crossing Illinois, he paused at the late great Republican Speaker "Uncle Joe" Cannon's hometown of Danville. ("The Supreme Court gave the country a real breathing spell...
...Emporia, hometown of Republican Editor William Allen White, an original Landonite, Nominee Roosevelt beamed down from his rear platform at the crowd, remarked: "I don't see Bill White. I wish he were here. I've known Bill for a great many years, and he is a very good friend of mine. I ought to qualify that and say he's a very good friend of mine for three-and-a-half out of every four years...