Word: myron
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...September 1919 a scrawny, big-eyed Navajo moppet entered the mission boarding school-one of the few beginners whom the mission truck did not have to carry off like a stray dog. Deloused, cropped, outfitted with blue work shirt, overalls, Leavenworth-made clodhoppers, named Myron Begay to replace Ashin Tso-n Bigé, quartered in dismal, overcrowded barracks, fed on 11? a day, Myron nevertheless preferred this atmosphere to life with his stepfather. When his mother came to take him home for the summer, he refused to go, saying he was "going on the Jesus Trail and be just like...
...Myron's first backsliding occurred when he was transferred (following the first big shakeup, under Hoover, of the Indian Service bureaucracy) to a school attended by Apaches. When one day he saw an unrepentant backslider from the start getting the worst of it in a fight with Apache students. Myron jumped in, was both delighted and distressed to discover he liked righting. That summer he let his hair grow, found riding better fun than driving a car, gambling songs prettier than many a mission hymn, backslid in his thoughts about pretty 12-year-old Buckskin's daughter, began...
...think fast in an emergency. Last week, the firemen of Boise, Idaho did so. Roused a few minutes after 3 a.m. by a newsboy who had noticed a pile of straw burning in a corral, firemen raced to the scene, found flames licking at a barn belonging to the Myron Jacobs Riding Academy, where swank Boiseans stable their horses. The Riding Academy is 25 ft. outside Boise's city limits. A city ordinance forbids the fire department to fight fires outside Boise, and firemen injured doing so get no compensation. Boise's firemen last week promptly decided...
Christened the "Vertaplane" by its inventor, Gerard Post Herrick (distant kin of onetime Ambassador to France Myron T. Herrick) of New York City, the craft has a strong pylon with a vertical mast which holds the top wing firmly in place for ordinary flying, and when released allows it to revolve on a bearing for a gyro landing. By virtue of a starting mechanism in the wing which starts rotation on the ground, the Vertaplane can make a gyro takeoff as well as a gyro landing. It weighs 1,700 lb., has a 125-h.p. motor. Said happy Inventor Herrick...
...Reynolds Tobacco Co. (Camels). A native Carolinian, Tobaccoman Williams once rendered what President Roosevelt called "devoted, impartial service" on the National Industrial Recovery Board. He fills the vacant seat of the late Banker George Fisher Baker. Some other A. T. & T. directors: U. S. Steel's Myron Taylor, Baltimore & Ohio's Daniel Willard, Southern Pacific's Hale Holden, Lawyer John W. Davis, Boston's Charles Francis Adams, Banker Winthrop Aldrich...