Word: boye
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...grandson, Bayard, and his playmate, a negro boy, gradually progress from childhood into manhood, always under her influence and as-similating her valiant spirit and indomitable will. Ringo, the negro, is recognized almost on a level with Bayard, and in many ways he appears to be his superior. It is he on whom Granny Sarforis leans for support in the crucial moments. He is always in her confidence in her plots, while Bayard seems to act on his orders without knowing...
Died. James Howell Post, 78, who rose from a $3-per-week office boy to be chairman of the board of a $26,000,000 industry. National Sugar Refining Co. of New Jersey; after a short illness; in Brooklyn...
Crusty E. W. Scripps who laid the foundations of the present Scripps-Howard empire was an extraordinary personality. An awkward, sensitive farm boy, born in Illinois, he grew up to despise formal education. Famed for his feuds and his acquisitiveness, he bullied advertisers and politicians, founded or acquired 44 newspapers from coast to coast, drank a gallon of spirits a day until he ruined his health...
...twelve his son Robert announced he would be a poet. E. W. Scripps thought he would outgrow it, gave the boy a newspaper training, and suddenly installed him at 21 as editor-in-chief of the Scripps papers. In 1922, E. W. Scripps picked a selfmade Hoosier, Roy Wilson Howard, then chairman of United Press, gave him to Son Robert as a partner...
Hawaii Calls (RKO Radio) is a vain effort to make 10-year-old Bobby Breen swap his mammy-singing mannerisms for the more suitable antics of a lifelike small boy. Its story outfits him with rags & tatters, a shoeshine box and a stowaway's berth to Honolulu. But whether Bobby sings wistful or swingy songs in his reedy, choirboy voice, he goes at them with expert, unchildlike, vaudeville-stage punctilio...