Word: john
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Roosevelts marry young. Though Franklin Roosevelt was barely 23 when he took to wife Eleanor Roosevelt, 20, his offspring have married younger: Anna at 20, Elliott at 21, Franklin Jr., John and James...
Having found their Hitler, Knight Deatherage ("Judaism and Communism are synonymous") proposed to Captain Campbell that they go abort organization, contact "leaders of main groups throughout the nation"-Father Coughlin, Kansas' anti-Semite Gerald Winrod, John Frey of the A. F. of L.'s Metal Trades Department, the American Legion's Americanism Commission Director Homer Chaillaux,* Louis John Taber, master of the National Grange, Walter Garrison of the Associated Farmers of California-"in all, men who are heads of large groups on our side of the fence." George Deatherage's meeting to bring these leaders together...
With his customary bull-in-china-shop finesse Mr. Dies managed to kick the chairman of the Republican National Committee, redheaded John Hamilton, out of the subversive bag. Mr. Hamilton, it seems, had been in correspondence with Facist Campbell to the extent of sending him a copy of the Republican National Committee list when he asked for it. Another potent Republican was revealed to be Mr. Campbell's correspondent. Chairman Dies introduced a letter from paunchy, cigar-smoking Banker Felix McWhirter, treasurer of the Indiana Republican State Committee, who asked Mr. Campbell if any of three persons were...
Last time Alexander Fell Whitney was heard of, John Lewis nominated him to head up U. S. Labor when & if C. I. O. and A. F. of L. reunite. Last week in Cleveland able, white-topped Mr. Whitney showed how he runs his own Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen...
...then learned how rich, mighty Tom Pendergast got into so queasy a mess. According to the prosecution, Boss Tom wagered $2,000,000, lost $600,000 on horse races in 1935 alone. "It has been a mania with him," said Defense Attorney (and Democratic County Chairman) John G. Madden. Lawyer Madden pleaded heart trouble as reason for a light sentence: "Imprisonment would mean death. He can't survive if he enters a cell . . . . Here we have death in life. . . . I ask the utmost clemency...