Jim Jordan
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"In 1858 Savannah businessman Charles Lamar, in violation of U.S. law, organized the shipment of hundreds of Africans on the luxury yacht Wanderer to Jekyll Island, Georgia. The four hundred survivors of the Middle Passage were sold into bondage. This was the first successful documented slave landing in the United States in about four decades and shocked a nation already on the path to civil war. In 1886 the North American Review published excerpts...
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Provides an inside look at the investigations of the United States Congress, the groundwork for Donald Trump's win in 2016, and the events that occurred during his four years as president--an inside story of the internal struggle for direction within the Republican Party.
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Radio Spirits Inc
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2008, c1940
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In 1940, American was still staggering its way out of the Great Depression and war clouds were rolling in from Europe. In the early months of that year, the upcoming Presidential campaign spotlight turned to perhaps the unlikeliest but certainly the most entertaining, candidate of all. On Febnruary 28, 1940, Gracie Allen declared her pioneering female candidacy for President of the United States ont he Surprise Party ticket. Politics was perfect...
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Fibber McGee & Molly had a long and successful run on radio from 1935 to 1959, featuring its creators and stars, married couple Jim and Marian Jordan. Living in the fictional Midwestern city of Wistful Vista, Fibber was an American teller of tall tales and a braggart, usually to the exasperation of his long-suffering wife Molly, who tried to keep him out of trouble. Fibber's weekly schemes would be interrupted by, inspired by, and often played upon...
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Fibber and Molly are making plans to spend the summer at Dugan's Lake. Mayor La Trivia pays a visit to Fibber and Molly while Gale Gordon is home on leave from the Coast Guard. The last show of the season, the last appearance of Isabel Randolph. The closet is heard. Bea Benaderet appears as Myrt, the telephone operator!