Word: boye
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...home, 73-year-old Senator George William Norris slowed down to 15 m.p.h. to look around for a tourist home. Suddenly a 9-year-old youngster darted in front of the machine. Senator Norris swerved, braked-but too late. The front wheel of the car passed over the boy's body, killed him. Senator & Mrs. Norris attended the funeral, were cleared by a coroner's jury, drove carefully on toward McCook...
Kuhn, Loeb Partner George Wallace Bovenizer was elected president of the Investment Bankers Association to fill out the unexpired term of Robert E. Christie Jr. who died while in an airplane flight to Chicago fortnight ago. Ireland-born, Manhattan-educated, Mr. Bovenizer started with Kuhn, Loeb as an office boy in 1897. Big, genial, approachable, he was elected a partner 30 years later, is immensely popular as manager of Kuhn, Loeb's bond and syndicate department...
...BOY AND GIRL TRAMPS OF AMERICA-Thomas Minehan- Farrar & Rinehart...
...many boy-&-girl hoboes are wandering the U. S. today Author Minehan does not attempt to estimate. The overwhelming majority of the 500-odd cases he collected left home because of hard times. They travel in small gangs, repeat the same routes, rarely get more than 500 miles from their starting place. The girls are sometimes on their own, oftener are common to the gang or temporarily faithful to one boy. For their living they depend on panhandling, petty thievery, breadlines...
...into mongee." Catholic charity Investigator Minehan found the kindest. Religion has small place in these adolescent tramps' lives; theirs is the tribal deity of Hemingway. Said one of them: "God is guts." The Second Coming they vaguely apprehend is the advent of a militant Messiah. "Every group of boy tramps contains a Communist. Bolshevism is spreading rapidly...