Word: boyd
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week Clarence Boyd, automobile accessories dealer of Emelle, Ala., accosted Esau Robinson, local Negro, about a long-due account on a storage battery. Negro Robinson refused to surrender the battery, promised to come immediately to the Boyd store with what he owed. Instead he appeared with his father Tom, his brothers Oliver and Jacob, all armed, and bashed Clarence Boyd over the head with a bottle. Thereupon Grover Boyd, uncle of Clarence, drew a revolver from his nearby automobile, opened fire on the Negroes. They shot him dead; Jacob, Tom and Oliver escaped. A hurrying crowd seized Esau Robinson...
...flew from the U. S. to Spain, to Italy, then quarreled. Recently Yancey in a seaplane flew from Long Island to Bermuda with an interrupting forced landing at sea. Last week while he was in Buenos Aires "good-willing," Williams, with Harry P. Connors (Navy-trained navigator) and Errol Boyd (onetime Royal Air Force-trained copilot) flew from Long Island to Bermuda, did not alight, banked and returned to their start in 17 hr. 8 min., first time such trip had been done. Their ship was the Columbia, Clarence D. Chamberlin & Charles A. Levine's 1927 trans-Atlantic transport...
...William Boyd, an advertising manager of Curtis Publishing...
Author James Boyd (Drums, Marching On) ... Litt.D...
Before that happened Dr. Hugh Thomp son Kerr of Pittsburgh, candidate to succeed Moderator Dr. Cleland Boyd McAfee of Chicago, displayed his qualifications by an ingenious address. Dr. Kerr, 58, is pastor of Pittsburgh's Shadyside Presbyterian Church. The past five years, since the reorganization of his church's boards, he has been president of its board of Christian education. In Presbyterian theology neither the Liberal nor Conservative groups can claim him. He is a congenial "middle-of-the-roader." The last two years he gained reputation outside his denomination by daily radio talks over Westinghouse's station KDKA, including...