Word: harvey
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...could have guessed who was meant. The Press had never told the public that Andrew Mellon existed. Never before 1921 had the name of Andrew Mellon appeared in a famed newspaper whose motto is "All the News That's Fit to Print!" (N. Y. Times}. The Author- Harvey O'Connor, 36, born in Minneapolis, son of a railway cook, was raised in the Northwest, spent his early years as a journalist for the radical wing of American labor-editor of the Daily Call, International Weekly, Union Record (labor paper)-all in Seattle...
...women's contest was really unnecessary. Well-informed horseshoe pitchers are aware that the best women pitchers in the U. S. are the Schultz sisters of Harvey, Ill., Caroline and Charlotte, who have been exhibiting their skill in the Midwest, where horseshoe pitching principally thrives, for the last seven years. The Schultz sisters are plump, brown and stocky with bobbed brown hair. Caroline is 21, Charlotte 22. Since they took up their pastime in 1926, they have pitched horseshoes three times every day on their own courts and either of them will guarantee 200 ringers in 30 minutes. Once...
Winner of the hog-calling championship at an Arkansas county fair was Harvey Crowley Couch, R. F. C. board member. Asked how he won the medal, he said: "The 'sooey' system. I used to 'sooey' home the hogs on my father's farm when I was a boy. There's a knack to the 'sooey' of course, and the 'cooey' and these newfangled calls can't approach it, once you've got it down...
...GRANDE - Harvey Fergusson - Knopf ($3). Time moves fast in the U. S., but in the Southwest it goes slower than elsewhere. Of Spanish feudalism only a "wistful remnant" is left; of the two-gun bad men only legends remain. But both the land and its natives, says Native Son Harvey Fergusson, are much the same as they were 300 years ago. There are still 9,000 Pueblo Indians, out of an estimated 25,000 when the Spaniards came. Author Fergusson says the Navajos are the only aboriginal people in the U. S. that have increased, have multiplied five-fold...
...already beginning to acquire the manner of a substantial citizen of Boston, as well he may, having been for three years in the insurance business (now a Travelers' agent). Happy is his family life with his Wife Betsey, daughter of Boston's famed Brain Surgeon Harvey Gushing. James had much to detail to his father: How the summer house he had rented at Rye Beach, N. H. had been badly damaged by fire three days before while his wife was out to lunch; how the presence of a secret service man to guard his family in his absence...