Word: oscared
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...district. Then followed a solemn Te Deum in the Lisbon Cathedral with the Knights of Malta in their scarlet tunics, Army and Navy officials in dress uniform, city fathers in robes of office, and the gold-braided Diplomatic Corps carefully arranged to keep belligerent envoys apart. President General Antonio Oscar de Fragoso Carmona shared prominence in the Cathedral with General Francisco Jose Pinto, special envoy from onetime colony Brazil; Nicolas Franco, Spanish Ambassador and brother of El Caudillo, and British Ambassador Sir Walford Harmood Montague Selby. To cheering mobs outside His Eminence Emmanuel Cardinal Gonc,alves Cerejeira read a Papal...
Emerton fellowships to Oscar E. Anderson Jr., of South Bend, Ind.; George McK. Elsey 1G, of Oakmont, Pa.; and William L. Spalding Jr., of Westfield...
...Oscar Ameringer's life began in a German village on the Danube in August 1870. When he was 15, having had flute playing and insurgence beaten into him, he escaped military service by skipping...
Some of the broad, bellylaugh stories Oscar Ameringer has to tell are doubtless the same stories he told the tenant farmers of Oklahoma when he went among them as a Socialist organizer. Angriest pages of his book are those in which he describes-and explains-the plight of those downtrodden U. S. citizens whom other upstanding U. S. citizens ("the rabble on top") turned into Okies. He moved up to Milwaukee, joined Victor Berger on the famed Leader and fought to keep that paper going (as it did) in spite of wartime persecution by Postmaster Burleson...
...Politics," says Oscar Ameringer, "is the art by which politicians obtain campaign contributions from the rich and votes from the poor on the pretext of protecting each from the other...