Word: boye
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Seattle Times's news beat on the Weyerhaeuser kidnapping: Reporter Dreher didn't, despite TIME, June 10, ''drag the boy down on the floor of the taxi." The boy rested on the cushioned seat of the taxi with Reporter Dreher on the floor. A half mile beyond the point of transfer from the farmer's Ford to the taxi, two G-men cars were parked. The reporter wished to avoid having an interview interrupted by Federal agents; hence the informal positions of the boy and the reporter. The reporter is 59 but not corpulent, weighs...
...ransom bills, put 100 of his agents on the kidnappers' trail. Within a few days 30 of the bills had turned up in Utah banks, been traced to Salt Lake City stores. A local detective was waiting when, one week to a day after the kidnapped boy's release, a short, brown-haired woman walked into a Salt Lake City 5-&-10? store, made a small purchase. At the cashier's cage her $5 bill was quickly checked with the ransom list. The detective made his arrest. Other officers were waiting at the woman's home...
...chief test pilot there from 1923 to 1925, Acosta had been by all odds No. 1 in his profession. It was his favorite boast that he would fly a barn door if it had wings on it. But as his fame grew, so did his reputation as the "bad boy of aviation...
...Pious and high-minded son of a poverty-stricken English gentleman, he is a stanch believer in the ethics of NRA, once advocated a 3-hour working day. Doubtless he had in mind his early years at Strawbridge & Clothier where, at 14, he went to work as a messenger boy at $2 a week. After hours he stayed awake only long enough to study his music lessons. When he rose from messenger boy to vice president and finally (in 1927) to president, music was the most conspicuous of his bewildering variety of civic activities. He organized the Strawbridge & Clothier chorus...
...well-fed farmer family lightens the after-dinner lull by laughing at the horrible trained antics of a half-witted Negro boy...