Word: guys
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...chief was furious. Walter George was one of the Senators whom Mr. Roosevelt tried to "purge" last year. To his mind this just showed how right he was in seeking to rid his party of such obstructionists. And a Senator who voted with George was Iowa's Guy Gillette, another purge-marked man. Mr. Gillette denied that his motive now was revenge for 1938, but that made Franklin Roosevelt feel no better about his worst defeat of all this session. He conferred with Cordell Hull about what they should do next...
Emerging pot-valiant from a Webster, Mass, tavern, beefy Bundster Fritz Kuhn (already under indictment charged with filching Bund funds) had words with a policeman, who promptly tossed him into jail. Next morning Police Chief John Templeman released him on $54 bail, snapped: "He was just another wise guy who thought this was a hick town and he could stage one of them beer hall putsch things and be the dictator...
Saga. A self-styled "little squirt anxious to be a tough guy," Paul Smith skipped through high school in Pescadero, Calif., at 14 set out to rub against the world. He jumped a harvest train, spent some time in the wheat fields of Saskatchewan, rode freight trains east to Ontario for gold, found none, jumped another freight back, worked in British Columbia logging camps (where friendly lumberjacks organized a bodyguard to protect him from those who resented his slickness), prospected in the Mojave Desert (where all he got was sunstroke), shoveled coal in Utah and Pennsylvania, bummed. Once, arriving...
...Radio Theatre, CBS. Substitutes, starting July 17: Hollywood Gabster George McCall; Guy Lombardo's orchestra...
This time Father Claude Rains is a sort of early-bird Enoch Arden, vagabonding back to mother and the girls after 20 years of French leave just as mother is fixing to marry again. This time John Garfield is an incredibly graceless, beachcombing wise guy, a rhinestone in the rough with some strange romantic glitter for Priscilla. This time mother and the girls all get what is best for them, and nobody suffers more than a bad case of sniffles. Next time, the four daughters will return in something called Four Wives...