Word: brothers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...brother of Boston Traveler's popular Columnist Neal O'Hara, Walter O'Hara is a quick-witted Irishman, onetime Rhode Island mill operator, who suddenly appeared on the State political scene when the Legislature legalized pari-mutuel horserace gambling in 1934. Promoter O'Hara quickly organized Narragansett Racing Association with the help of friends, bought 130 acres from an oldtime Woonsocket saloonkeeper for $150,000, built a track in seven weeks and began running profitable races before the paint was dry on the grandstand. Taking 62% of all bets made, besides gate receipts and concessions, Narragansett...
Last January Editor Ruppel decided to investigate U. S. Nazis. Using the sleuthing methods he had learned as an agent of the U. S. Narcotic Bureau, he picked for the Nazi-hunt the Times's German-born Real Estate Editor John Metcalfe, his brother James, an old G-man, and William A. Mueller, a seasoned newsman...
...sold for 50? each. Next night they came back. This time they were greeted by a policeman who was surprised to discover that the pillage and wreckage had been done by six barefooted, dirty-faced moppets, twins Chester & Leo Froelich, 9; John Rudecki, 9, and his 8-year-old brother Walter; Walter Miranda and his 6-year-old brother Norbert. John Rudecki, the only one who tried to escape, was extricated with difficulty from between the blades of a ventilating fan. Bundled off to the station house, they were lined up, photographed (see cut), bound over to their parents pending...
...bottle of soda pop, repaired to a Coney Island hotel. A thick man in his late thirties, Frank Fuller is secretary-treasurer of San Francisco's W. P. Fuller & Co. (paint), founded by his grandfather. He does not spend much time in his office. His wife, brother, sister and cousin are all flyers, and the Fuller planes take up half of a hangar at Mills Field. Californians generally call them "the flying Fullers...
...years that the Interstate Commerce Commission was in action did it have a Pennsylvania member. In 1933 President Roosevelt remedied this state of affairs and did his political ally. Senator Joseph F. Guffey of Pennsylvania, a favor by giving an I. C. C. berth to Senator Guffey's brother-in-law Carroll Miller. Mr. Miller, a lanky six-footer whose lantern jaw, stooped shoulders and pince-nez make him look like a schoolmaster and whose extraordinary drawl and dry wit sometimes make him sound like a Will Rogers type hayseed, hails from Richmond, Va., has spent most...