Word: lepper
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Diego, 13-year-old Lionel Dodson sat down and wrote a letter to a 12-year-old neighbor girl named Joan Lepper. "You will never know how much I love you ... I want you to have my bicycle. . . ." Then he killed himself by putting the muzzle of his .22 caliber rifle to his ear and pulling the trigger. ¶ In Denton, Texas, a 14-year-old Palo Pinto County farm girl named Eva Lee Knoop got into a taxicab, showed the driver a .22 revolver, ordered, "Get out of Texas." He headed for Oklahoma. Hours later, gun still in hand...
With him was his "socialist dog," born under Prince von Starhemberg's Fascist guns in 1934, which had accompanied Gedye through all his travels. Due back with him shortly, too, is blond, fortyish Madame Lepper, ex-Austrian civil servant, British by marriage, who started as Gedye's secretary, is now almost his collaborator...
...railroads needed 3,200 more men at once to 1) get the freight to the piers, 2) get the boxcars moving west for another load. Off on a manhunt went the War Manpower Commission and Railroad Retirement Board. Said WMC's Major Howard J. Lepper: "This is no sissy job. It calls for husky workers with a stiff backbone and plenty of muscle. But I'll even take women provided they have plenty of beef...
...days of such newspaper appeals brought impressive results: 2,000 volunteers in 48 hours, including 100 Princeton University students, scores of husky lads from the athletic leagues sponsored by New Jersey police departments, three sailors on shore leave. Perhaps Major Lepper had found the magic formula for recruiting workers. Said the New York Sun: "There's something about a request for male brawn that can't be swept aside. It's like trying to walk by those muscle-testing machines at the fair...