Word: bullocks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Tarrytown's Sleepy Hollow Country Club, he gets a laugh out of his plight. His laugh-provoker is the Bawl Street Journal, a bawdy scapegrace parody of the highly reputable Wall Street Journal. Edited by stocky, literate John A. Straley, pulp fiction writer and wholesale representative for Calvin Bullock, investment bankers, last week's 17th annual edition of the Bawl Street Journal (11,000 copies at 50?) was a sardonic reflection of the state of U. S. Business today...
...Superior Court Judge Georgia Bullock of California: "I'm not sure whether they are married or not, but I hope for the best...
Died. Gaston Bullock Means, 59, notorious national rascal, onetime Secret Service operator and private detective; of a heart attack; in Springfield, Mo., where he had been taken from Leavenworth Penitentiary for an operation. Born in North Carolina, Gaston Means at ten rode around the country eavesdropping on prospective jurors for his attorney-father. He joined the William J. Burns Detective Agency in 1910, then became a German spy, was later tried and acquitted of murdering a client. When the Bureau of Investigation hired him for War fraud investigations, he helped block them instead. Discharged, he supplied the Senate...
...BULLOCK Rutherford...
...Little Miss Broadway, Shirley is a high-spirited orphan always on the point of breaking into a tap routine or a Walter Bullock-Harold Spina song. She is adopted by a lackadaisical Broadway character (Edward Ellis), who runs a seedy hotel for vaudeville actors. After a while, the exuberance of Jimmy Durante and his five-man orchestra get on the nerves of the lady next door (Edna May Oliver). She owns the hotel, but when she tries to evict the vaudevillians she runs up against Shirley. Shirley captivates the old lady by singing Swing Me an Old Fashioned Song...