Word: boye
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...whit that on a polo field in his heavy tortoise-shell spectacles, with his helmet snugly strapped under his big chin, and seated in a curious grey, woolly saddle, he cuts a strange figure. When he misses a shot, which is often, he always shouts: "Oh Boy...
...first four decades of his life John Hertz never thought of retiring. Austrian-born Jew, he was brought to the U. S. as a child, ran away from home after a spanking. He became a copy-boy in a newspaper office (Chicago Daily News), learned to spell well enough to do police reporting and finally rose to be assistant sports editor. When his newspaper was merged, he started to sell automobiles. He sold them so fast that the trade-ins piled up into a nightmare. Then he hit on the idea of painting his used cars and sending them...
Dearth of smoking pictures is due merely to failure of cameramen to click. Only smoking-picture of Mr. Roosevelt in the files of Manhattan agencies is here shown (see cut). It was taken seven months before his election, at a Manhattan luncheon for the Boy Scout Foundation. At Mr. Roosevelt's left is Barron Collier, car card advertising tycoon and real estate speculator who last month got a three-month moratorium on his $17,000,000 debts, under the Hoover bankruptcy law.-ED. As an olrltime consistent reader of TIME I appeal to you for some information to satisfy...
When the sacred white silk maternity belt was reverently wound around the person of Her Imperial Majesty the Empress Nogako a month ago, all Japan renewed the nation's years of patriotic Shinto prayer for a boy at last-a new Son of Heaven. Auspiciously the Empress's labor grew most severe last week just as Japan's sun was about to rise and burst refulgent on the Imperial Maternity Pavilion, freshly built in the Fountain Garden of Tokyo's moat-encircled Chiyoda Palace. Minute by minute they approached-the Sun Goddess and the Imperial Child...
...upon generations of money-an atmosphere of the Midwest, of the lusty young automobile industry, of money still too young to beget staid offspring, but not too young to sow a few wild oats. He himself, now three years short of 50, was 27 years ago a boy from Chicago's outskirt, Evanston, just beginning his financial apprenticeship with N. W. Harris & Co. Six years ago he stepped out of Harris Trust & Savings Bank to carry the banner of finance to the City of Automobiles, to the Land-Where-Things-Were-Done-in-a-Big Way. Help...