Word: boye
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...children throughout the world had been taught to keep his eyes peeled for it. With shaking hands he scooped up the cheesy stuff, 60 lb. of it, and carried it home. Next day he got a schoolboy friend to take a sample to his chemistry laboratory. That night the boy came back to report that the sample had assayed 70% ambergris. Ambergris, he had heard, was worth $26 an oz. His find would bring...
...which he lives are cold-hearted and unethical. But a young man who is employed as a teller in his bank learns of his concealed sympathy for the poor, and realizes that underneath a hard crust he really has a soft heart. Because of his poor financial standing, the boy hesitates to propose marriage to a wealthy girl with whom he is deeply in love. Upon the advice of the horse trader, the young man places all his money on a horse the girl has entered in a race. The film comes to a happy and amusing conclusion...
...spirited son of a public-spirited father is Theodore Roosevelt, 46. A gallant, much-decorated lieutenant-colonel in the A.E.F., he returned to help organize the American Legion, serve two terms in New York's Assembly, three years (1921-24) as Assistant Secretary of the Navy. To help boys and Negroes he became a Boy Scout national executive committeeman, a trustee of Washington's Howard University. In 1929 President Hoover made him Governor of Puerto Rico. Conscientious, hardworking, sympathetic, he did his best to improve natives' health and prosperity, became as popular a governor as the island...
Died. Gerald W. Peck, 47, Chicago investment banker, utilitarian and sportsman, grandson of Wisconsin's late Author-Governor George Wilbur Peck (Peck's Bad Boy); of a gunshot wound inflicted by one Tom Hollamon Sr., 67-year-old farmer, during a directors' meeting of Texas Hydro-Electric Co., of which Banker Peck was president; in Seguin, Tex. Witnesses said Hollamon appeared at the meeting to press an old claim for land flooded by a company dam, started to leave after a "friendly" conversation, wheeled, fired twice...
...Wilson & Co.'s 9,000-odd stockholders had no good ground lo fear nepotism. For Father Thomas the board chairmanship was created, and from that eminence he announced he would continue to run the company. No matter how much Father Thomas might wish to see his red-haired boy get along, he could not have wangled the presidency for Son Edward against the will of a directorate which includes Col. Albert Arnold Sprague (Sprague Warner & Co.), Edwin Augustus Potter Jr. (Guaranty Trust Co. of New York), Henry C. Olcott (Skelly Oil), James MacHenry Hopkins (Camel...