Word: humphreys
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ADMIRAL NEVER FORGETS-Vice-Admiral Humphrey Hugh Smith, D.S.O...
...would be naive to suppose that the ambitious young Governor has been unaware of the political and civil dynamite represented by the bootleggers and the citizenry whose prosperity rests on their outlaw profits. At his side last week stumped the "King of the Bootleggers," 33-year-old Earl Humphrey, who claims 15.000 'leggers in his Independent Miners & Truckers Association. A slim, shrewd, explosive Welshman who lost a leg in a mine accident, 'Legger Humphrey cried: "We will welcome any impartial investigation by the State Legislature. But any effort by the big coal operators or the State to stamp...
...Isle of Fury" is a scenario writer's nightmare, containing every possible dramatic situation with the exception of the World War. Margaret Lindsay and Humphrey Bogart, he of the underworld voice, are the leading players in a series of adventures on a Pacific island. A mysterious though good-looking stranger is shipwrecked into a group of pearl divers and fugitives from justice and, or civilization. Among the other thrills are an underwater fight with an octopus, a pearl robbery, a shooting, and an unveiling of a G-man. Humphrey Bogart is convincingly hardboiled and confident as he drives the natives...
Said Lawyer Rowland to Oilman Humphrey after the meeting broke up: "Thanks for letting me read our statement." Replied Mr. Humphrey: "That's all right. Sorry you're not with...
...have had nothing to do with Mr. Getty's lack of success at Tide Water meetings. Whatever his own feeling may be, an overwhelming majority of the other Tide Water stockholders and more than 50% of Tide Water stock, exclusive of the Mission holdings, have consistently supported the Humphrey management...