Word: boye
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...possibly is just a small point to your college boy writers, but the Goodyear disturbance was not primarily a Goodyear strike, and it was not originally an authorized U. R. W. strike, although such fine points of reporting escape your nasty nice writing boys...
...discuss their problems. They were in session working them out when a few radicals and a few nervous women-just as you may have in New York, commenced to disturb the peace, and the efficient alert Akron Police Department stepped in and restored order. A boy was shot, but you are wrong again when you say he was a striker, and perhaps any boy who knowingly runs into trouble should expect to get hurt. However, our City Hospital, with the latest scientific equipment, is taking excellent care of him and he is improving rapidly...
...Thumb. One day last fortnight in the little town of Ubly farmers from the three northern counties of The Thumb-Huron, Tuscola, Sanilac-gathered for a band concert, a baseball game, a celebration grander than any county fair. Michigan's Governor Frank Murphy, a Huron County boy, was there to make a speech. But the biggest attraction in Ubly was a giant generator, whose 3,000 horsepower was ready, when the switch was pulled, to gallop over 542 miles of newly strung electric lines. After dark, many men, women, children, cows and chickens in three counties saw electric light...
...LAUGHING BOY BLUES (The Charioteers; Vocalion). Very darktown, very cheerful...
Last week Kentucky-reared Edwin Rogers Embree, president of the Julius Rosenwald Fund, went to University of Georgia to make a commencement speech on "How to Tell a College Graduate from the Birds and Fishes." Mr. Embree recalled that when he was a boy the South had its own formula for the ideal man: a scholar, a gentleman and a judge of good whiskey. This triple ideal, said he, is still an admirable goal for education. Solomon, he reminded Georgia's graduates, so pleased the Lord when he chose the gift of wisdom that he received riches also...