Word: ky
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Joseph Eveleth Scholarships: Edward W. Oxnard, 3M, of Southboro, Mass., A.B. 1932. John J. Sheilds, 4M, of Pittsburgh, Pa., S.B. Bucknell 1931. George T. Howard, Jr., 2M, of Lexington, Ky., A.B. Univ. of Ky...
When she was 25 Patty Smith Hill was running a model kindergarten in Louisville, Ky. Grover Cleveland was President and Lillian Russell was the talk of Broadway. One day, Patty Hill's sister, Mildred, wrote a jingling little tune to which Patty fitted words. They published the song, copyrighted it, and sometimes Patty Hill would sing thus to her kindergarten children...
...thought that Gallant Fox might get into his class. In 1931 it was Twenty Grand that the dopesters were hopefully watching. But wise-acres long ago agreed that neither was the equal of the 17-year-old who last week was sunning himself on the Riddle farm near Lexington, Ky., while Paramount angled for his services in a racehorse film based on a story by Sportswriter Damon Runyon...
...Reno, AAAdministrator Chester C. Davis cried that opponents of AAA had but one idea, the same idea which led to the Depression: to keep the Government from helping farmers. And, most indefatigable of all, was the generalissimo himself, Secretary Wallace. At Ruston, La., at Paducah and at Hopkinsville, Ky., he got up on the stump at farmers' meetings to exclaim...
...Danville, Ky. 100 years ago was born John Marshall Harlan who rose to the U. S. Supreme Court bench, served there 33 years (1877-1911), won fame as a "great dissenter", a stern defender of civil liberty. Last fortnight in Danville (pop. 6,800) another Judge Harlan gazed sternly at two young men before him. He was Police Judge Jay W. Harlan, a third cousin. One of the young men was Jack Durham, 23, city editor of the Danville Advocate and local correspondent for Associated Press. The other was Wesley Carty, 23, correspondent for the Louisville Courier-Journal. The judge...