Word: wacks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...squat, bespectacled Jose P. Laurel lived in uneasy luxury. Peasant-born and Yale-educated, he occupied Manila's ornate Malacanan Palace, once the home of Manuel Quezon. He smoked special cigars with his name printed on the band. After guerrillas wounded him while he was golfing at the Wack Wack Country Club, he was provided with an armed guard of 600 men. In return for this, José Laurel-who had been a respected Manila attorney and a member of the Philippine Supreme Court -did the bidding of the conquerors...
...prize to the listener who could think up a new name for him. Now NBC is offering a $500 war bond for the best title for The Show Without a Name. A would-be actor until his parents said no, Moore turned to radio and became a successful wack. Assigned by NBC to an office with H. V. Kaltenborn, he has so far manfully resisted his urge to rearrange the pins in the pundit...
Oratorical Gerald L. K. Smith, onetime Huey Long lieutenant and veteran of political wack-movements, said he was thinking of running for the Senate from Michigan as a booster of Father Coughlin...