Word: harold
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Getting clown to brass tacks in Harar last week, New York Times's candid Harold Denny cabled: "The exodus of disappointed 'war correspondents' and camera men from Ethiopia is now well under way after one of the greatest and most expensive flops in journalistic and newsreel history. . . . The Ethiopians have an unmatched talent for procrastination-they dislike doing anything today which possibly can be put off. "The result has been that a hundred or more correspondents and camera men are gnawing their fingernails at Addis Ababa, Harar and Dire Dawa knowing less about the fighting they...
Seeking out Key for a story, reporters made their way to the luxurious Sunset Boulevard home of the Brothers Harold & Edward Janss. There in a cottage at the rear of the house "Ted" Key and his father James D. Key were in residence, the father acting as "watchman." By this time, though, young Key had disappeared, so it was to the father that newshawks put their queries. Was it true that "Ted" Key was really Clois Francis ("Shorty") Key, who played two years as fullback with the Texas School of Mines in 1930-31? Not at all, declared Father...
...days passed it became more & more likely that Sir Charles, who had safely pioneered almost every dangerous airway in the world, had finally tempted fate too far. Hope persisted that he might have landed on some tiny, uninhabited island, some lonely Burma beach. In California, Brother Richard Harold Kingsford Smith recalled that in 1929 Sir Charles was given up for dead when lost for twelve days in the Australian bush. Said he: "I'm not worried. He'll show...
...Winthrop House, and Andrew Kacmarcyk, of Dunster House and Brooklyn, Philip E. Lilienthal, of Lowell House and New York City, Douglas T. McClay, of Dorchester, Edward Meilman, of Roxbury, Herman E. Schroeder, of Leverett House and Brooklyn, Richard E. Voland; of Dunster House and New Rochelle, New York, Harold P. Welch, of Kirkland House and Winchendon, Francis J. Whitefield, of Dunster House and Springfield, and Harold Winkler, of Winthrop House and Lawrence...
...with deposits of $3,534,000. The bank's investment affiliate, N. W. Harris Co., was liquidated in 1934 and Harris, Hall & Co. is its logical successor. Edward Bigelow Hall, 49, native of Ishpeming, Mich., graduated from Yale (Sheffield) in 1908, there became a good friend of Harold Stanley, head of the new Morgan Stanley & Co. After reporting for the Chicago Post and Herald & Examiner, Banker Hall became assistant publicity director for the Harris bank, was a crack bond salesman at the time of the War, learned while overseas that he had been made sales manager of the bank...