Word: whirlwinds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Freshmen were most productive of dark horses, but Leverett House achieved the largest total for any one of the unlisted candidates, giving 10 votes to Roger W. Babson as a hangover from the resent whirlwind ballot-battle of Prohibitionist. Henry H. Morgan '41 Babson's total in the entire University...
Pastor Hall (United Artists) is redder meat. Its central character, loosely drawn from famed jailed, nonconformist Pastor Martin Niemböller, is a man whom the Nazi whirlwind strikes where it hurts most, his conscience. When Storm Troopers move into the drowsy little village of Altdorf to give it some political training, Pastor Hall (Wilfrid Lawson) tries hard to understand what the new gospel is about. What happens when he does, and winds up in a concentration camp, is uncomfortably close to modern crucifixion. Released by his friends, Pastor Hall is about to escape when across the street he hears...
...Harry Hines, a churchgoing member of the Texas Highway Department. Pappy O'Daniel got out his sound truck (with a replica of the Capitol dome on top), hired some more entertainers (including Texas Rose, a girl ballad singer), and put on a two-week whirlwind campaign. In his wake he left a trail of fainting girls and women-sometimes as many as a dozen would be laid out on the truck, prostrated by the crush of O'Daniel handshakers. On Saturday night, after the polls closed, he threw a mammoth party in the Governor's Mansion...
...Continued a whirlwind speaking & praying tour...
...unpaid volunteer workers quietly secured the signatures during the past three weeks. As explained by a member yesterday, the Plan E Committee's strategy is to "lie low" during the spring, conducting an educational campaign and reserving its forces for a whirlwind fight next fall...