Word: boye
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...private conference Mr. Girdler got into hot water. Calling the Mediation Board "incompetent and unfair," he asked: "Who is Taft? He is a man who likes to talk about the things his father did. Who is Ed McGrady? He is Fannie Perkins' and John Lewis' office boy." After this appeared in print Mr. Girdler hastily telephoned Mr. Taft, explained that he had only quoted a New Dealer. Apparently what roiled the steelmaster most was the way President Roosevelt had thanked him a fortnight ago after Mr. Girdler agreed to cooperate with the Mediation Board. According to Mr. Girdler...
...nights before the bar boy had done a clever pencil sketch of Henrietta, and she had had a chance to study his face as he sketched. Business was slow that night and later she had gone upstairs to borrow something to read from one of the other girls. In a detective magazine she had seen a picture of 29-year-old Robert Irwin, former insane asylum inmate, sculptor of sorts, wanted in Manhattan for the horrible Easter Sunday murders of the beauteous artists' model Veronica Gedeon. her mother and a man lodger. "Why that looks like...
...midnight Friday, Pantry Maid Koscianski was all atremble. The bar boy had obviously skipped town. His locker was empty. The police had been to his $1.50 a week hotel, found only an old pair of shoes and New York newspapers with stories about the Gedeon murders and the recent death threats against a staff physician at Rockland State Hospital where Irwin had once been a mental patient. "I feel like a nickel now," mumbled Miss Koscianski.-"I didn't call the police because I just thought it was a coincidence. I didn't have the nerve to think...
When a coffee-colored Negro boy named Joe Louis Barrow graduated from Detroit's Bronson School in 1931, his teacher gave him a report card to take home to his mother. On the card was written: "This boy should be able to do something with his hands...
...College at Schenectady is also very summer theatre-minded. Dixon Ryan Fox had just become president of Union three years ago when he persuaded his trustees to set up an Institute of the Theatre which would sponsor an annual Mohawk Drama Festival in July and August. Governor Lehman, the Boy Scouts and civic bodies all over the Mohawk Valley have enthusiastically sponsored the Festival. Colonel Frederick S. Greene, State Superintendent of Public Works, had Festival road signs posted in a 50-mi. radius of Schenectady, and this year, the Festival's third, he will be rewarded with a small...