Word: stoker
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Charles Edward Coughlin of the Nation Union for Social Justice is 45. He was born a Canada of an Irish American father who had been stoker on the Great Lakes and of a mother who have been a scamstress. The candidate the Rev. Charles Coughlin is supporting for the presidency is William Lemke, 56, son of prairie farmers. Candidate Lemark was a Phi Delt at the University of North Dakee where be studied law. The Rev. Charles Coughlin took a doctorate in philosophy at 20 at the University of Toronto. He traveled three months in Europe as there debated...
...England, got a commission in the Royal Flying Corps, and was sent to Egypt. A bad crash left him with a troublesome leg, which has cost him a total of three years in hospital. With no job, money or prospects he married an English girl (niece of Bram Stoker, author of Dracula), brought her to the U. S. After eight unsuccessful months trying to sell Mack trucks, Farson and his bride went off to live in a shack on Vancouver Island, stayed there two years. Then he went back to Mack Truck Co., did so well he was made Chicago...
Among the iron works' assets were jigs, tools, drawings for a mechanical stoker. The original owners carried the stoker on their books at $5,000. The new owners considered it worthless. Idea for the stoker is supposed to have occurred to a greenhouse operator who got sick & tired of hopping out of bed to stoke his furnace on cold nights. The iron works had actually turned out a few crude stokers, using a feeder worm similar to that in a meat chopper. Several months after the iron works changed hands, inquiries began to straggle in from people...
...STOKER BUSH-James Hanley-Macmillan...
Chris was a good lad, according to the dim lights of his submerged world. Married seven years, father of two, and still in love with his Anne, he thought himself in luck to have a steady job as stoker on a transatlantic liner, to spend one blissful week at home out of every hard month. It never occurred to his simple mind, nearly as calloused as his hands, that Anne might not be contented as he was. His boozy father-in-law hinted, neighborhood gossip spoke plainer, Anne herself as good as told him that something was wrong. The most...