Word: stoke
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Stoke Gives Final Speech...
...final luncheon meeting on Thursday will be presided over by Paul H. Buck, Provost of the University. Harold W. Stoke, President of the University of New Hampshire, is to give the final speech, "A College President Looks at Public Education...
...when he was discharged from the U.S. Army last November, Davis forswore his native Columbus, Ohio, rushed back to Stoke, got a job as a biscuit salesman. He married his wartime sweetheart, 19-year-old Alma Taylor, and prepared to settle down to life in the crammed streets behind curtains only fortnightly white. He even wanted to become a subject of the King. But Britain's Home Office was not looking for immigrants. It declared that Davis was using up needed food and clothing, and ordered him to leave the realm...
...When Stoke heard about it, anger swept through the city of fire and earth. The people liked this squarejawed, plain-speaking American. If he wanted to be one of them, why, no bloke in any bloomin' office up in London had a right to interfere. Three hundred petitions ("We, the undersigned constituents of the Potteries towns . . . record our protest . . .") circulated throughout the Five Towns, bore 10,000 signatures by last week...
...Davis walked through the streets of Stoke last week (with only nine days until his time in Britain was up), people shook his hand and told him not to worry. From all over England, letters poured in blasting the Government and offering assistance. The Government retreated. This week it extended Davis' stay in Britain until January (when the weather in Stoke is wont to be particularly foul...