Word: hayes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Young works long hours. The golf sticks which he took to Washington with him three years ago have never been out of their bag. Tall, bronzed, 42, much less social than the other flying assistant secretaries, he is not married, lives alone in the Hay-Adams House across Lafayette Square from the White House. He smokes cigarets furiously, curses lustily...
...marriage made Murray a member of the Chickasaw tribe and, through his wife, he came into possession of several thousand fertile acres of land on which he began farming. At this time he was tagged with his familiar nickname because of his persistent advocacy of alfalfa as the proper hay to plant in the short grass country of Oklahoma. Even today he cultivates the popular use of "Alfalfa Bill" rather than the less common "Cocklebur Bill" which his political enemies tried to fasten on him. As a farmer, Murray was successful and is supposed to have made several hundred thousand...
Japanese soldiers, once their advance got completely behind schedule, fought with mounting ferocity which presently became "frightfulness." Neutral white witnesses reported with horror how Chinese civilians were shot down, how Chinese property in the form of houses, barns, hay and grain was ignited by the Japanese...
...crowds, warming to the fun, bought balloons, horns and other noisemakers. Tuesday morning youths and maids who had been out most of the night before at the ball of Proteus (Old Man of the Sea) & Queen (Marjorie Stair), got up early, piled into dozens of trucks padded with hay, drove through the streets of New Orleans in the wake of the parade of Rex, King of Carnival (Coco-Colaman A. B. Freeman). Crowds packed from building line to car tracks threw confetti, cot ton balls, grabbed at shoes dangling over the sides of the trucks. Meanwhile, up from the river...
...Long in later years, "but the hay we bought turned brown and was all but unsaleable." Robert Long had come to Kansas City from his native Kentucky with $700, earned by doing farm chores and selling hickory nuts. All of his money was in the hay business and he wanted to get married. With his friend Victor Bell he peddled the lumber bought for hay sheds, recouped part of his loss. That was the beginning of Long-Bell Lumber Corp., world's greatest lumber concern under one ownership. Long-Bell grew to a company with...