Word: boye
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Oldtimers in Boise like to tell of the Idaho farm boy who some years ago returned from a trip to their city, breathlessly told his father that he had seen the great Senator Borah. As proof, the lad said he had heard a number of Boise people addressing the stranger as "Senator." "Son," the farmer drawled, "those city slickers were fooling you. Now what in the world would a man like Senator Borah be doing in a place like Idaho...
...Chicago, Tommy Cushman, 4, marched into a tavern, declared he was lost, had the bartender notify the police, waited until Policeman Thomas Mahoney drove by and took him home in the patrol wagon. Chuckled Policeman Mahoney: "He's a smart boy. Tommy's been after me for a week for a ride in the wagon, but I couldn't do it on account of regulations...
From the New Deal, such accusations sounded strange to oilmen's ears. Said one oilman: "The oil industry feels like a small boy spanked by mama for doing something papa told...
...leading makers of stringed instruments is Kalamazoo's Gibson, Inc., which used to mean mandolins to many a high-school boy and girl. Gibson reports that guitars now account for 95% of its sales, compared to 5% before Depression. Another leading stringed instrument maker is C. F. Martin & Co., which is not to be confused with the Elkhart band instrument company. President is C. Frederick Martin IV, a suave, blond young man who is also president of National Association of Musical Merchandise Manufacturers. Says he: "My family has been in the business 90 years. . . . Americans as a class...
...family, friends and fancy have taken him so many hithers & yons about the Western World that a casual acquaintance might be hard put to name his habitat. His grandfather was a Portuguese immigrant who became a shoemaker in Philadelphia. His father, "a self-made literate," volunteered as a drummer-boy in the Civil War, was invalided out of the Army of the Potomac when he was 14. He went on to become a successful corporation lawyer, an anti-Bryan Democrat, the author of various respectable treatises on such subjects as interstate commerce, the husband of a Southern lady who presented...