Word: boatman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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English lore has it that Billy Patterson was an ingenuous boatman who earned his shillings in the vicinity of Oxford University. It is said that for years a feud had existed between the students and the river boatmen. A group of excitement craving sophomores managed to capture Patterson and bring him to "trial" before a jury of their peers. He was found "guilty" and "sentenced" to have his head amputated via the guillotine...
Quentin Roosevelt started the program off by doing a little detective work with songs, pointing out how "The Old Spinning Wheel" came from "Boula Boula," and how "Oh Mama, that Moon is Here Again" was derived from "The Volga Boatman." Lewis's "That Man Coolidge," a monologue, was given by Charles H. Stearns as the next thing on the program...
...goods merchant, later to a mapmaker. Finding his "worldly spirit" in collision with the piety of his father, he struck out on his own, worked as a farmhand, then started west with a companion, bumming rides on primitive trains, stealing poultry, taking up with a drunken canal boatman...
...that Morgan had betrayed the trio. Morgan returns to his tourist fishing parties, only to have his fishing tackle lost overboard by a tourist, who at cruise-end welches on making the loss good. The tackle cost $360, must be replaced if Morgan is to continue as a party-boatman. The rest of the story relates the more & more dangerous expedients he is driven...
...only acid doctor doing a brisk business in the eastern U. S. is James G. Vandergrift, 30, grandson of old "Captain" J. J. Vandergrift, a onetime river boatman who accumulated a large fortune in oil, land and steel, had a Pennsylvania town named for him. Energetic young James Vandergrift is the son-in-law of William T. Mossman, Jones & Laughlin Steel Corp. executive who made news copy in the last Presidential campaign because he is an uncle of Alfred Mossman Landon. Young James went to Ohio State, studied chemistry and geology, taught swimming, worked in the oil fields of Texas...