Word: boyhoods
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...where he slept on a cot in the corridor. At 47 he was president of Chicago's second biggest bank, the First National (present assets $643,000,000), and lived in a 14-room house on Barry Ave. All Mel Traylor carried from a crude Kentucky boyhood to fame & fortune in Chicago was a sinewy physique, a permanent tan, a slight twang...
...large he was well content to be one of the boys and proud of his reputation as a hard guy. Then the neighborhood began to lose caste with an invasion of Negroes. When the Lonigans moved out the old gang broke up. On a sentimental journey back to his boyhood streets Studs saw that his world's base had been built on stubble, felt to his secret horror that he himself was growing soft, slack, ignoble...
...administrator is Kenneth Ballard ("Cotton-top") Murdock, 38, professor of English and dean of the faculty of arts & sciences. Son of a Boston banker, he is solemn, efficient, popular, scholarly, and the author of two books on Increase Mather. He has been President Conant's warm friend since boyhood, was best man at his wedding. But their relations were strained for a time last year by James Conant's shy embarrassment when, not long after congratulating Friend Murdock on his certain election to Harvard's presidency, he himself got the job. Some Harvardmen think "Cotton-top" Murdock...
Wamegonian. Sixty years ago Henry Chrysler used to drive a wood-burning locomotive across the plains of Kansas. Fifty-eight years ago a son was born to him in the town of Wamego, Kans. Walter Chrysler from boyhood was a wizard with machinery. At 1 7 he quit school to become an engine wiper at 5 ?an hour. He took a course in mechanical engineering from International Correspondence Schools. At 33 he had already driven through all the branches of railroad mechanics to the position of superintendent of motive power and machinery for the Chicago & Great Western. From that...
Meanwhile statements were flying thick & fast over Spellbinder Coughlin's accusation that Alfred Emanuel Smith, foe of the Roosevelt program, had gone with two Catholic bishops to the House of Morgan to arrange a loan for his Empire State Building. Al Smith warmly denied this, adding: "From boyhood I was taught that a Catholic priest was under the divine injunction to 'teach all nations' the word of God. That includes the divine Commandment: 'Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor...