Word: jr
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Republican National Committee last January, one disgruntled committeeman grated: "I'll give that guy just six months more." Last week, almost six months to the day, the committeeman saw his prophecy come true. In the interest of "harmony in our ranks," National Chairman Hugh D. Scott Jr. quit...
...Malaikah Temple in Los Angeles had practiced Lloyd's favorite songs (Marcheta, The Donkey Serenade). Choice sequences from Lloyd films had been put together to be shown on a screen, finally dissolving into a shot of Mrs. Lloyd and her three children-Gloria, 23, Peggy, 22, and Harold Jr., 17-in the garden of their 16-acre Beverly Hills estate. Then there would be a bouquet of roses for Mrs. Lloyd, and a new Cadillac sedan for the new Pote, purchased with 10? contributions from 42,333 California nobles. Said Lloyd in pleased anticipation: "The whole thing is usually...
...steam-bath heat of the Lexington, Ky. federal courtroom last week, fat, whip-brained Edward Fretwell Prichard Jr. sat with his eyes closed and his hands clutching the arms of his chair. A distinguished witness, perhaps the most respected man in Bourbon County, was addressing the court...
...During these last few days, when our beloved and only child married the girl he loves [Paul Robeson Jr., who went to school in Russia, married a white girl], I have taken the crucial beating at the hands of my fellow countrymen. Some of them collected in the street to boo my children, whom they did not even know. The natural thing for people to do when they see a newly married pair is to smile indulgently, vaguely wish them well. These people were wishing my children evil...
...wandering along the East Coast and through parts of the Midwest talking to people. He has popped up in all sorts of places, and chatted over everything from tea to corn whisky and orange bitters. "I always follow the custom of the country," says Raven Ioor (pronounced yore) McDavid Jr...