Word: langs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Down, One to Go. Dearest to Chifley's heart was a drive to nationalize banks. Private bankers, cried he, had greedily levied up to 8% interest on loans. Then a rebel Labor politico in Sydney, "Big Jack" Lang, charged sensationally that Chifley himself once lent money at rates up to 9%. Labor's embarrassed leader said it was true-only he had invested the money for proletarian friends and neighbors, taken nothing for himself. At his final rally, shirtsleeved Premier Chifley mixed with former railway cronies, reminded hard-drinking Australians how Labor had relaxed the closing time...
...weight throw will see BU's Irving Black and James Lang pitted against Crimson captain Geoff Tootell and Dick Rubin. BU's entries have both thrown farther than Tootell or Rubin, but were beaten by both these men in a weight throwing meet held here last week...
Greatest honor that Oberammergau has to offer is the role of Christ, twice played in the '30s by Hotel Proprietor Alois Lang. In 1947, Lang was let off lightly by a de-Nazifi cation court after he had protested that the Nazis had bullied him into joining the party. Last week, the part of Christ went to 37-year-old Anton Preisinger. The change had nothing to do with Lang's Nazi past (ex-Nazi Preisinger was also fined by the same court), but because Lang doubted whether, at 58, he could stand the physical ordeal...
Wrong Number. In Los Angeles, Clarence D. Lang, suing for annulment, charged that his wife had deceived him by allowing him to go on thinking that he was her fifth husband when in reality he was her seventh...
Other graduate winners were Richard G. Stern 1G, Cecil Y. Lang 3G, and Robert F. Hoopes 4G, all honorable mention...