Word: boye
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...nationwide scale, Storm Troopers working themselves up with shouts that they were "punishing race rape." One result: correspondents in large German cities reported rush sales of dark hair dye to many a blonde. Explanation: "They think you're a Jewess and let you alone with your Jewish boy friend, if your hair is dark. Of course in a small town where everyone is known, dye is no good...
Shelled out of existence, or "put away on ice" in Federal penitentiaries month after month were such lurid desperadoes as John Dillinger, "Baby Face" Nelson, the "Terrible Touhy" Gang, "Pretty Boy" Floyd. And on Sept. 26, 1933, Mr. George ("Machine Gun") Kelly produced a word which still rings from the front pages of the U. S. Press. Trapped in the bedroom of his Memphis hideout, the instigator of the Urschel kidnapping held his trembling hands high...
Died. William Mulholland, 79, builder of the 250-mi. $25,000,000 Owens River-Los Angeles Aqueduct, chief engineer of the St. Francis Dam which collapsed in 1928, killed 400; following an apoplectic stroke; in Los Angeles. An Irish immigrant boy, Builder Mulholland went to Los Angeles in 1877, found it a city of 10,000 people, took a job as zanjero (ditch-tender), studied engineering, enabled the city to attain a million population as a result of his daring municipal water system. When the collapse of the St. Francis Dam caused $30,000,000 damage and the worst flood...
...which he thought unreasonable. When he decided his son should learn music, he bought him a violin and hired a teacher, would not listen when his wife, the teacher, neighbors and Clarence complained that the youngster produced only horrible, tuneless sounds, insisted they were not strict enough with the boy...
...which he thought unreasonable. When he decided his son should learn music, he bought him a violin and hired a teacher, would not listen when his wife, the teacher, neighbors and Clarence complained that the youngster produced only horrible, tuneless sounds, insisted they were not strict enough with the boy...