Word: boye
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...very. very seldom heard of by the consuming public. Brother George is not heard of or recognized at all. He sits in his bare office in Manhattan's Graybar Building and tends as strictly and shrewdly to A. & P. finances as he did when, as a plump boy of 15, he counted A. & P. money in the cashier's cage on Vesey Street. In his homely way he decided that things were going too fast in the 20s. In 1927, he put his heavy foot down and ordered A. & P. to make no leases for over one year ahead. That...
...spring of 1853, just as the Big Ditch is freed of ice, Dan Harrow (Henry Fonda), a big, quiet farm boy, signs on as a mule driver for the summer. In Hennessy's strictly moral canal hotel at Rome (immoral canal hotels could be identified by their white chimneys), Dan meets Molly Larkins (June Walker). She is a pretty minx born to the Erie water. The conflict between "notional" Molly and simple Dan is the traditional one between water folk and land folk...
...Local Boy Makes Good or. The Mule That Went to Harvard" is an appropriate title for the biography of "Pete," long-eared mascot of the Pointers...
...prospects of positions. Men who go up vague, and remain vague, as to their ultimate aims are at a loss when they graduate for employment: but the knowledge that the university is orientated towards the learned professions to a large extent has a selective function. The high, school boy to make a rash generalization only turns to the university for the specialized purposes for which it is known to exist; if they do not suit him he goes straight into business or to a business school instead, for only for a small minority does college follow the high school...
...Illinois farm boy, Jackson Reynolds went west to Stanford for an education. There his 190 Ib. of compact brawn made him a fearsome halfback on the football team managed by a youth named Herbert ("Bert") Hoover. When the late great George Fisher Baker discovered him, Mr. Reynolds was teaching law at Columbia University. One of his pupils was Franklin D. Roosevelt. Today the old teacher sees his prodigious pupil occasionally, but he is not rated a close Roosevelt friend...