Word: wpaster
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Akron, Ohio, WPAster John Ehmig petitioned the Probate Court to change his son's name from Franklin Delano to Lincoln Franklin Ehmig, his daughter's from Eleanor Elizabeth to Jessie Elizabeth Ehmig. Reason: his December 24 WPAy-check did hot arrive before Christmas...
Esau. Next to New York City's spunky, part-Jewish Mayor Fiorello H. LaGuardia, whose manhandling by a disgruntled WPAster was front-page German news last week, the U. S. politician whom Nazis hate most is that spade-is-a-spade "Aryan," Secretary of the Interior Harold LeClair Ickes...
Attacked from behind and knocked down on the steps of the City Hall by a discharged WPAster suffering from delusions of persecution, New York's scrappy little Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia grabbed his assailant's legs, got them in a scissors hold before police came to the rescue. The fracas over, he remarked: "That's nothing to some of the blows I've taken under the belt. ... It was fortunate for him that I was not facing...
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