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Word: boye (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Huey's onetime boy friends, Mayor Maestri and Hotelman Seymour Weiss of New Orleans, were no less interested in this development than was State Senator James A. Noe, onetime friend of Huey's friends. It was Mr. Noe who was reported to have stirred up Washington columnists, hoping thereby to better his chances to wrest the Governorship from the Leche-Maestri-Weiss organization next year. If he runs Senator Noe will have to beat Earl Long, who will have to rumple up both his hair and his personality before he can hope to equal his late brother...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LOUISIANA: Huey's Boy Friends | 7/3/1939 | See Source »

...touch with the common people is no accident, but the result of self-conscious effort on the part of its publisher, who is famed for his rough-&-ready dress, his brusque manners and his liking for rubbing shoulders with the proletariat in saloons and subways. A rich boy himself, Joe Patterson never got along with other rich boys, had made several sporadic efforts to become a man of the people before he found his chance as a publisher. From 1914 until 1925 he and his cousin, Robert Rutherford McCormick, shared the running of the Chicago Tribune (which their grandfather, Joseph...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: 1,848,320 of Them | 7/3/1939 | See Source »

...their way back from the South Pole in March 1912, Captain Robert Falcon Scott and his party perished of starvation and cold. To his wife, Kathleen, Explorer Scott wrote: "I must write a little letter for the boy if time can be found, to be read when he grows up. The inherited vice from my side of the family is indolence-above all he must guard, and you must guard him, against that. I had to force myself into being strenuous...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Wild Goose Chaser | 7/3/1939 | See Source »

...same headmaster for all its 55 years. Dr. Peabody, who will serve another year before Crocker takes over, knows that Groton's future is in the hands of no stranger. Fifteen members of the Crocker family went to Groton, and Jack Crocker is an exemplary old Groton boy. He went to Harvard, where he played a bang-up end, then went to Oxford for two years. Afterward he taught at Andover, studied at the Yale and Episcopal Theological Schools, was ordained a priest, went to Princeton as chaplain ten years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Jack for Peabo | 6/26/1939 | See Source »

...work, at the dedication of a German monument to Richard Wagner. European composers wrote pieces with titles like Vorwärts-A Washington Post, as if this were a special dance like the waltz or polka. An army officer told Sousa that in a Borneo jungle he met a boy with a violin, sawing out the familiar deedle-dee-dums of the march. How many millions of copies the Washington Post sold, John Philip Sousa never knew. Like many composers with a good tune, he sold his rights to it early, to a Philadelphia publisher...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Der Vashington Pust | 6/26/1939 | See Source »

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