Word: lunchroom
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Married. Joseph George Strecker, 51, born in Galicia, Hot Springs, Ark. lunchroom proprietor and onetime U. S. Communist; and Mrs. Emma Howard, 41, Hot Springs widow; in Hot Springs. Last April Strecker's appeal from a deportation order went to the U. S. Supreme Court, which ruled that past membership in the Communist Party is insufficient grounds on which to deport an alien...
...knows he'll see her again simply because Lucy is going to Texas, too. A pursued gangster gives him a ride in a big, black Hudson; he lives on an occasional hamburger, sleeps happily in thickets, in barns, on lawns. The little towns of the Midwest, the hitchhikers, lunchroom girls, farmers, high school kids, old people, down-and-outers, all pass by in Prokosch's limpid prose, phantasmagoria hauntingly created but incredible in a landscape sensuously seen, smelt and touched but unrecognizable. It is the same with Author Prokosch's ponderings: relevant, plausible, portentous and flimsy. Aware...
Stan Shaw's sponsors now number eleven, have been as many as 14. They and the studio net him between $7,500 and $10,000 a year. In his first year he broadcast ten chop-licking plugs a night to the lunchroom circuit for doughnuts and buns made by Fischer Baking Co. Sample "It's permissible to dunk Fischer's doughnuts up to the second knuckle." In that year Fischer's opened two new branches, added 19 new delivery routes. His first sponsor, in 1935, was Krueger Brewing Co. In 25 days, with no other advertising...
...Solicitor-General of the U. S., correct in morning coat, wing collar and striped sponge-bag pants, last week appeared before the U. S. Supreme Court to attack a foreign-born lunchroom proprietor of Hot Springs, Ark. in a case fateful for all alien radicals in the U. S. Important also for Franklin Roosevelt's Secretary of Labor were the Solicitor-General's arguments, for in attacking Radical Joe Strecker, able Robert Houghwout Jackson was clearing the name of Frances Perkins, against whom rested impeachment charges based on her alleged mollycoddling of an even more famed alien radical...
Dean Sperry also remained adamant in refusing to permit mixed company in the basement of Andover Hall, sits of the lunchroom, before a delegation from the Cambridge Student Cooperative Society...