Word: ashlanders
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...many boys raised in Iowa go to sea, fewer still become admirals. Perhaps William Daniel Leahy would today be a corn-hog farmer if his Iowan parents had not moved when he was still young to Ashland, Wis., on the shore of Lake Superior. As it was, when he graduated from high school he wangled an appointment to the U. S. Naval Academy, and last week President Roosevelt announced that, effective Jan. 1 Admiral William Daniel Leahy, Commander of the Battle Force, will be Chief of Naval Operations, No. 1 U. S. sailor. He will succeed Admiral William Harrison Standley...
...Father Goldblatt set up a grocery business, the Goldblatt boys sold newspapers, later got jobs as clerks in a Milwaukee Avenue store. In 1914, by the time elder Brother Morris was 21, they had saved up a few-hundred dollars to set up their own store at Chicago and Ashland Avenues. In 1915 they did $35,000 gross business, in 1920, $225,000, in 1925 $1.825,000 and pushed their profits to the $101,000 mark...
Married. K. M. James ("Jimmy") Lin, 27, post-graduate student at Ohio State University, nephew and adopted son of China's President Lin Sen; and Viola Brown, 24, Columbus, Ohio 5?-&-10?-store clerk; in Ashland, Ky. Said Father Lin: "I disapprove...
...Manhattan, a magistrate found Francis McLeod, 27, unemployed barge captain, guilty of smashing his four-month-old daughter in the face after a longshoreman had beaten him in a brawl. In Ashland, Ky., Willard Slusher, 27, was indicted for murder for having quieted his three-month-old daughter with a fatal slap across the head...
...attacking the schools." Hopefully they decided to ask the next Congress for half a billion dollars, with no strings of Federal control attached. In this resolution they were going to call attention to $2,000,000,000 Federal appropriations for Army & Navy, but War Veteran Virgil Sturgill of Ashland, Ky. objected and the comparison was struck...