Word: layton
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sworn in as Finance Minister, to take the lead out of Canada's pants and put some silver in, was one of Canada's cleverest financial men, Colonel James Layton Ralston. A corporation lawyer who spends his spare time loafing with dory fishermen on the Nova Scotia coast, fishing and eating lobsters, he has long refused to nibble Cabinet bait. But once in, he was expected because of his bulldog tenacity and narrow partisanship to become the Government's strongest...
...nominate for Man of the Year the twins, Judas Iscariot and Neville Chamberlain. L. LEE LAYTON JR. Dover, Dela...
...London, Publisher Gannett's candidacy immediately hit a snag. "Bang the trumpet and blow the drum," began a sarcastic attack in Sir Walter Layton's pro-New Deal Star. "For the first time in history, an American Presidential boom-or boomlet-has been started in London." In the U. S., Columnist Heywood Broun gave Candidate Gannett "Hindiana, Hiowa and Harkansas." In Manhattan, the Daily News chortled: "If Lord Beaverbrook has his way . . . and Roosevelt runs against him-boy, what a dish Gannett will...
...arrested in Wilmington, Del. for stealing two bedspreads. Three months after that sentence expired, he stole a suitcase from an automobile. So last week he was in trouble again. Joe Buzzard's venerable age saved him from Delaware's famed whipping post. Chief Justice Daniel Layton's remarks as he sentenced him to two more years, however, were sufficiently humiliating: "You're old enough to know better." Joe Buzzard agreed. The suitcase for whose theft he began his 14th jail term belonged to a shoe salesman, contained nothing but tennis shoes, all for the left foot...
...Carol Layton (Jean Harlow), bright sprig of an old family of Saratoga horse fanciers, comes home from England engaged to a New York socialite named Hartley Madison (Walter Pidgeon), whose bankroll is more impressive than his sophistication. To Carol's father's crony, Bookmaker Duke Bradley (Clark Gable) this is good news indeed. He takes it for granted that Carol's only possible object in becoming affianced to a rich nincompoop is to provide financial succor for her father and his friends. Actually Duke, who falls in love with Carol, is quite right but Carol...