Word: kunkel
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first glance Pennsylvania's Republican Congressman John Grain Kunkel (pronounced Koonkul) is a very ordinary looking fellow. It is almost impossible to imagine Congressman Kunkel wearing a burnoose, strumming a guitar by moonlight, or joining the Foreign Legion to forget Dorothy Lamour. He wears spectacles, which would probably keep him out, anyhow. Congressman Kunkel is 48, a bachelor, 6 ft. 1 in., has grey hair, is shy, wears quiet clothes, and looks as though he enjoys reading railroad timetables...
...Congressman Kunkel electrifies the Republican women of Dauphin County (Pa.). And Congressman Kunkel has never flinched when faced with masses of his female constituents in the grip of emotion. He has faced them before. Last week he faced them again. He had invited the Co-operative Republican Ladies of the Dauphin County Councils to come to Washington for lunch (at $2.50 a plate) at the Statler. Eight hundred joyfully accepted. They arrived on a special train, surged out, straightened their Kunkel ribbons, dabbed at their noses, spied Congressman Kunkel standing with his back to a Union Station pillar. They charged...
...Kunkel faced them as calmly as William Cody facing the thundering buffalo of the western plains. He smiled, he shook hands, amid a sea of spring hats, he nodded. When Mrs. David Carr Sr., vice president of the Councils, showed him her knees which she had bruised slipping in a puddle, he made no audible reply. When one constituent kissed him and dozens squealed happily, he just braced himself. When sightseeing buses finally took the 800 off on a tour of the city, including the zoo, he walked away steadily and surely...