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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Foxcatcher is the name of the Du Pont stables and kennels...
Jamaica Inn is the somewhat free rending of Daphne Du Maurier's best-seller of the same name. It tells about the few but feverish days Mary Yellen (lank, pale-faced, sloe-eyed Maureen O'Hara) passed with her Aunt Patience at a creepy Cornish inn, until kidnapped by Squire Pengallon who later jumps from a yardarm, kills himself...
...left-wingers and some Catholics denounced Father Coughlin and his assertions, but his radio audience began to mount. During the winter, a Gallup poll indicated that he had 4,500,000 steady listeners, 15,000,000 occasional ones. At a Nazi Bund rally in Manhattan, Father Coughlin's name drew as many cheers as Hitler's. By summertime, Coughlinites in the East were organized and articulate enough to plan a parade into the "Jewish-Communist" enemy's territory, Manhattan's Union Square. Father Coughlin called them off. There were indications that he knew...
...evening, a once-misunderstood wife confessed to curling up in her nightie in front of the radio, listening to Indian Love Lyrics, being then & there cured forever of the "coldness" of which her husband had complained. A one-armed girl once sent him a silk hanky with his name embroidered on it with her toes...
...Young, who considers tear gas a humanitarian substitute for bullets, was out of the spotlight. He was still President of Federal Laboratories, but Federal Laboratories had become the subsidiary of a much more obscure company. Name of its corporate parent was Breeze Corporations, of which Munitions Salesman Young became executive vice president, and a director...