Word: briens
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Story is told by a small boy whose name is the book's* title. Because his father is a sot, and he thinks people suspect him of knowing a lot about how Mitch Miller (the subject of a novel Author Masters published in 1920) got killed, Kit O'Brien leaves Petersburg, 111., with two of his friends. Hungry, they steal apple pie. His friends get caught, but Kit proceeds, Huck Finn fashion, down the Illinois River into the Mississippi. There on a houseboat he finds Miss Siddons, an impoverished ac tress with a disfigured face, living with a madman. When...
President John J. O'Brien's report last week that Standard Gas & Electric Co. of Chicago owns public utility properties worth $873,135,568 and has total assets of practically a billion dollars ($973,859,382) may startle governmental officials already queasy with suspicion of public utility holding corporations such as this. Prudent, President O'Brien warded off aspersion: "Public utilities cannot be operated economically in small units. Only by grouping them into large, strong organizations can they be favorably financed, scientifically engineered and successfully operated so as to render services at the lowest reasonable cost...
Three new men, all graduates of colleges other than Harvard, will assume professorships in the Harvard Graduate School of Business next September. They are Norman Scott Brien Gras, Howard Thompson Lewis, and Auton de Haas...
...losers only tally came in the first inning when Worth passed O'Brien, and two of the men who followed him to the plate sacrificed and singled. After the initial frame, however, the Huntington nine was unable to advance any man further than second base...
Huntington--O'Brien, l.f.; Lothrop, 1b.; Spognardie, s.s.; Reardon, c.; Souther, r.f.; Eogarty, 2b.; Murphy, 3b.; Green, c.f.; O'Neil...