Word: hoey
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Smith, "but don't give up, you've still got a chance." Later Al Smith emerged to tell reporters that politics had entered the conversation only once. "One of the children asked for another piece of cake. That has a political flavor." News that James Joseph Hoey, floor leader for the Brown Derby at the 1924 and 1928 Democratic national conventions, had been appointed collector of internal revenue in the second New York district came as a "surprise" to Mr. Smith...
...contrary, the President appointed to the politically potent post of collector of internal revenue in the second New York district a man who had bolted the Tammany ticket and had run on the McKee ticket with an endorsement from his intimate friend, Al Smith. Name: James Joseph Hoey...
...entered the Boston Marathon and finished third on bleeding feet chafed to the bone by ill-fitting shoes. Last week he strapped snowshoes on his feet and entered the 200-mi. snowshoe race from Quebec to Montreal, competing with northwoodsmen who had used snowshoes all their lives. Frank Hoey started ahead and Joie Ray was far back in the pack. His cheeks froze; he tramped through deep snow with his face wrapped in bandages. After the third day's lap he was third, with Hoey still leading. At the finish on the eighth day he trailed, a slow & sorry seventh...
...hats, coats and liquor away with her. The show could stand some severe editing and in certain of the numbers better direction would add a distinction which is lacking. But there is plenty of good music (notably: "Blue Again," "Ex-Gigolo"), most of which is sung by personable Evelyn Hoey (Fifty Million Frenchmen). Flashiest dancer is smiling Jimmy Ray, who fidgets and tapdances gracefully and silently. There is also a dramatized fable called "The Jackdaw of Rheims" in which the jackdaw is a midget toedancer. Lulu McConnell was born in Kansas City, Mo. - how many years ago she is unwilling...