Word: walser
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week, however, not only Oklahomans but the rest of the U. S. sat up and took notice when it appeared that Oklahoma City schools were odd not only at the top but also at the bottom. Haled before their high school principal for persistent hooky-playing, Milton Walser, 19, and Manford Ishmael, 18, airily explained that they had been busy leading a blackshirt movement to establish a new political and economic system in the U. S. by "bloodless revolution...
...Walser, a dark lad with curly hair, was "commissar," and Ishmael, who wears a wisp of black mustache, was "vice commissar" of a secret group calling itself "C?C" (Curiosity Club). Its members, 24 boys, nine girls, all wore a uniform of black shirt, black breeches and black boots. Male members also were expected to grow mustaches. Meeting in members' houses, they discussed sex, atheism and a program they distilled from Plato, Aristotle and Edward Bellamy's Utopia. Specific points in their program: less restrictive marriage laws, more sex education, a plan (a kind of first cousin...
Undecided whether they had chanced upon a "communist" or "fascist" plot, public officials promptly investigated. Assistant County Attorney E. W. Brown summoned Commissars Walser & Ishmael, vainly demanded the names of other members. In Washington Chairman Martin Dies of the House Committee Investigating UnAmerican Activities wired for full details. Said he: "This is very important...
Said Commissar Walser's mother, "I think that I'll go home, get these boys together, roll up my sleeves and bat their heads together...
...exhibition in Manhattan went 17 oil portraits, including one of Vice President John Nance Garner, by a young Washington artist named Azadia Walser Newman. A lynx-eyed redhead with a vague resemblance to Joan Crawford, Portraitist Newman is the daughter of a one-time Democratic National Committeeman, traces her ancestry on her mother's side directly to Charlemagne. Named Azadia after a section of Washington's Rock Creek Park which was once the family estate, she signs her paintings Azadia. Of Sitter Garner she recalled: "He called me 'little lady' and gave me a long talk...