Word: byrds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Snow-planning has become a popular winter sport at the leading New England airports. Started in Maine, where it was a necessity for air commerce during the winter months, the new method of flying first caught the public fancy by the success Admiral Byrd had with it on his Antarctic expedition...
WHEN brother Delta Tau Deltas from the University of Florida visit Sam Byrd in New York they still find him playing Dude Lester in Tobacco Road-now going on about the 900th performance-one of the most cussed sons in all the world-a tough, blasphemous kid full of sex and Georgia Cracker adolescent orneriness. Offstage, Dude is a slender ex-collegian who stocker journalism and wrote a few one act plays before getting on Broadway. Now he has to battle to keep from sounding like the half wittel nasty Dude when he's not being Dude, and that hard...
Died. William T. Reed. 70. president of Larus & Bro. Co. (Edgeworth tobacco) and of Reed Tobacco Company; suddenly, of a heart attack, at a family dinner attended by his good friend Senator Harry Flood Byrd of Virginia; in Richmond...
...showing the Emperor of Japan walking off with the Nobel Peace Prize, Vanity Fair also showed J. P. Morgan making a stump speech against Capitalism, Admiral Byrd wintering in tropical Tahiti, William Randolph Hearst as Ambassador to Soviet Russia and Huey Long in a friar's robe entering a monastery. To crack this page of mirth wide open it was captioned "NOT ON YOUR TINTYPE. Five highly unlikely historical situations by one who is sick of the same old headlines...
...want to be fined and put in jail because I just cannot control the actions of my queen bees." Last week the Senate relieved Apiarist Glass by voting queen bees out of the AAAmendments. "To the Garbage Can." His 10,000 acres of Virginia orchards make Senator Harry Flood Byrd the biggest apple-grower east of the Mississippi. As such he uprose last week to lead an attack on the proposal which would permit minimum price-fixing on certain foodstuffs. "As a producer of food," cried Pomologist Byrd. "I am firmly convinced that much more harm than good will result...