Word: daniels
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...skull where another bullet knicked it, and fought on. Dr. Capers C. Jones, of Birmingham, Ala., 91, barked at Secretary of War Harry Woodring: "Give me your hand. I ain't going to bite you." "I'm sweet 16 and never been kissed!" shouted Yankee Daniel Daffron, 92, of Forest Grove, Ore. Said his harried attendant: "Have I had a time trying to keep track...
...more money for schools, the N. E. A. was highly embarrassed by this report. It hastened to disown Dr. Gellermann's thesis. Meanwhile, Legionnaires sprang to arms. Said Theodore Roosevelt, a Legion founder: "The study must have been made by a jackass." To Manhattan rushed National Commander Daniel J. Doherty to demand that the N. E. A. let him answer. Commander Doherty finally was given the floor at the convention's last business session. Said...
Early this, year B. & O. needed cash. Its charges have zoomed steadily for years, now total $32,000,000 annually on fixed obligations of $674,000,000. In January, B. & O.'s resourceful President Daniel Willard got an $8,233,000 RFC loan through his good friend, RFC Chairman Jesse Jones. To get it he had to put up all his available collateral-including the Chesapeake & Ohio Canal, which has not been used for shipping since 1923. Last week, B. & 0. again needed funds to meet $1,700,000 in interest payments due first of this month. No less...
Presumably put through privately by Chairman Jones and Daniel Willard Jr., the deal was as fabulous as it was timely: through RFC, B. & O. sold its down-at-the-heel canal to PWA (subject to a court receivership settlement) for $2,000,000, approximately $1,000,000 above its book value, thereby getting enough cash to meet its interest payments. Exactly what PWA will do with its canal is still uncertain. According to present plans, it will turn the property over to National Park Service, which may restore the picturesque taverns and lock houses flanking the waterway. The 22-mile...
...descendant of Daniel Boone, a newspaperman who has worked in Honolulu, New York, the Dutch East Indies, Author Robertson called his family chronicle Travelers' Rest. When Northern firms turned it down he organized the Cottonfield Publishers with two friends, brought out the book at a cost equal to the price of "19 bales of eight-cent cotton." An honest, spotty book. Travelers' Rest traces the violent history of an old Southern family through their fights with nature, the neighbors, and each other, shows old pioneers with their buckskins off and their coonskin caps hanging from the wrong hatracks...