Word: oak
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Charles E. Coughlin of Royal Oak, Mich, likes to wave his hand toward the filing cases containing the names of all those whom his radio-voice has incited to write to him. He likes to say: "The 8,000,000 members of my National Union for Social Justice. . . ." Yet the best likeness this radiorator ever saw of his 8,000,000 followers was the face of a microphone. Last week in Detroit's Olympia Auditorium he attempted a new adventure: to meet his followers in the flesh...
Early in February 1932 a young woman named Patricia Maguire who lived in suburban Oak Park, Ill. and worked as a secretary on the Chicago Herald & Examiner went to see her family physician, complained of being extraordinarily drowsy all day long. Dr. Eugene Fagan Traut gave her a thorough examination, could ind nothing wrong with her. Within a fortnight the attack of epidemic encephalitis (sleeping sickness) from which Patricia Maguire suffered put her into a stupor from which she has not yet recovered. Her case attracted widespread newspaper attention. On the anniversary of her first symptoms, on her birthday...
...says she, "are never wholly successful. Even the best fade very rapidly, almost before they open." The button chrysanthemum she finds one of the few small flowers which look well on the Lord's table. "Once we used button chrysanthemums in yellow and deep bronze with dark red oak leaves at the base. Very Spanish, when seen at close range; but the colors were massed in such a way that from a distance they looked like two lovely flames...
...billowed in from the sea. It blurred the outlines of the ancient town and muffiled the hammers in the shipyard where hundreds of workmen tortured English oak into ships and more ships for King William, scotching the Sun King, so they thought, with every hammer-blow...
Allen prepared at Exeter, and captained the undefeated Freshman hockey team. Oakes graduated from the Oak Park High School, and was the football captain. Both he and Allen are members of the Union Committee. Von Stade is a graduate of St. Pauls School, and is a well-known polo player. He was the captain of the Freshman poloists this winter...