Word: boye
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hoover has helped put the Nation's Capital on the front page, but how about Robert V. Fleming, a sand lot boy of the District that reached the top in the banking world, president of Washington's largest bank, also president of the American Bankers Association...
...University is so rich it is poor. Like a little boy who has inherited a fortune, but who, because of the bigotry of his parents, can spend it on kiddy cars and patent leather slippers, but not on licorice and other things that would make a better man of him, the University is prohibited from spending anything but the interest derived from her oil and grazing lands, and that only on physical improvement...
Meanwhile Fleet Street editors scoffed at the cock & bull yarn some reporters had telephoned in. They said they had talked to an Irishman who said he had talked to a woman who said her little boy had been rescued from drowning in the duck pond of St. James's Park by a tall man in top hat and impeccable morning clothes who looked exactly like the Chancellor of the Exchequer. This Irish yarn seemed all the more unlikely because several men were said to have been standing nearby when the child fell in, while the top-hatted rescuer...
WILLIAM EDWIN HALL: MASTER OF ARTS, of New York City, lawyer and corporation official. "A citizen who has enriched his country by ardently promoting a better life for the underprivileged boy...
...consisting of a stage show starring the harmonizing Pickens Sisters of radio fame and a new Robert Taylor opus called "Private Number." It appears to be a romantic sort of parlor comedy with Loretta Young playing the seductive servant girl and getting all in love with the handsome rich boy. They go through the customary trials and after a reassuring struggle against the forces of convention and class feeling emerge safe into Curid's pure light...