Word: boye
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last January into San Francisco Municipal Court went a white girl with the charge that a Filipino boy had held her while a rival white girl battered her nose, blacked both her eyes. Said Judge Sylvain Lazarus from the bench: "This is a deplorable situation. ... It is a dreadful thing when these Filipinos, scarcely more than savages, come to San Francisco, work for practically nothing, and obtain the society of these girls. Because they work for nothing, decent white boys cannot get jobs...
Died. Nicholas de Paulis, 67. Lausanne delicatessen proprietor who in 1905 hired exiled, half-starved Benito Mussolini as delivery boy for $9.80 & board per month; in Lausanne...
...slaughtering and provisions business. Succeeding generations of Joneses and Laughlins have been cast with remarkable regularity in the mold of the founding partners. The Joneses went for steel, the Laughlins for culture. Founder Jones was already a bigwig in .he steel industry when Andrew Carnegie was a local telegraph boy. When Carnegie succeeded in delivering a message to Mr. "ones personally, Mr. Jones would tip him 25?. His son, Benjamin Franklin Jones Jr., was a crack steelman and J. & L.'s lead until his death in 1928. In his later years active command was in the hands...
...Aubrey Smith and his dog are trub the bright spots in a picture which might murder the appeal of Freddie Bartholemew for intelligent movie-goers. In "Copperfield" the boy was marvelous Please, Hollywood, don't make him into a male Shirley Temple...
...week is a well rounded program featuring a satirical romance of Clarence Buddington Kelland called "Mr. Deeds Goes to Town," with an S.S. Van Dine thriller filling out the bill. In the first, a gem of pure wit in Kelland's best Satevepost style, Mr. Deeds is a country boy from Vermont whose uncle's death leaves him a fortune of twenty millions, complete with town house and a regiment of vassals from a major-domo to a pair of plug-ugly bodyguards. With a bank account that "will do in a pinch," he locks the guards in a closet...