Word: bucks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Joseph Taylor Robinson is a fine, hard-boiled top sergeant, always on the job, never sparing himself, short on finesse, but long on loyalty. Gruff, bad-tempered, wrinkled-faced, he has the voice of an angry bull and an equal amount of courage. But when it comes to wheedling buck privates who can no longer be driven, to using astute finagling to bring men into line, then Franklin Roosevelt has to rely on men like Mississippi's artful Pat Harrison and shrewd Vice President Garner...
Headquarters: Say, Buck, take your two slot machines down...
...Outside: Buck...
Chicagoans first began to like Marshall III in 1917 when, after spending most of his youth at Eton and Cambridge, he returned to enlist as a buck private in the U. S. Army. They liked him even more when he returned from France a cavalry captain and, despite unlimited capital and numerous business opportunities, went to work as a bond salesman and bookkeeper's apprentice at Lee, Higginson & Co. Later Salesman Field opened an investment business of his own and still later joined forces with two young investment bankers named Charles F. Glore and Pierce C. Ward...
Married. Pearl Sydenstricker Buck, 42, novelist (The Good Earth, Sons, House Divided); and her Manhattan publisher, President Richard John Walsh of John Day Co.; in Reno, after Mrs. Buck had divorced John Lossing Buck, onetime missionary, and Mr. Walsh had been divorced by Mrs. Ruth Abbott Walsh, good friend of Mrs. Buck...