Word: boye
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Pudgy Jim Thomas started his career as an errand boy in a chemist's shop, became a wiper in a locomotive yard, later helped organize the railwaymen's union. It was Jim Thomas who made it possible for British railway employes to have the highest wage scale of any union in the realm. With James Ramsay MacDonald and Philip Snowden, Thomas was one of the founders of the British Labor Party. In the House of Commons since 1910, he has served as a Cabinet Minister for the past seven years...
...more power than Il Duce thought good for him. Soon he was kicked upstairs to be Fascist Governor of Rome. When the African adventure developed, Fascist Bottai packed his kit without a word of protest, sailed for Ethiopia as a simple major of the line. For being a good boy, he had his reward last week when he was made civil governor of Addis Ababa...
...suddenly developed abnormal pains and a mental attitude that made his studies impossible. We really were convinced after a time that it was a mental case. Another doctor began testing him on food reactions. Two days later he called me over and showed me that the dull and apathetic boy was eager and bright again. The trouble was that he was sensitive to eggs. At school he had been eating, three or four of them every morning and it was enough to knock...
Asked what was his favorite dish, North Carolina's Governor John Christoph Blucher Ehringhaus replied: "The boy in me always craves ice cream...
...into his wagon for a shotgun, shot him dead. Prospector Voiss was bundled off to jail in San Francisco, indicted for murder. Psychiatrists examined him, ad judged him insane. To police Peter Voiss burst out: "To the crazy house I will not go. It's as if a boy passed you and threw a rock, then passed again and threw an other and another...