Word: oy
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When a CRIMSON reporter interviewed Dr. Von Oy, he admitted that he was probably the person referred to as "Von Off" whose arrival the Boston papers reported in so sensational a manner...
That he worked his way across the Atlantic as a freight and coal carrier, and then stepped ashore with diamonds on his hands was emphatically denied by Dr. Franz Von Oy, German student at the University, when shown the newspaper accounts of his trip to this country...
...Germany such a thing could never happen, and I cannot understand how the papers write such falsehoods", said Dr. Von Oy. "I do not come from Munich, but from Kiel. I don't wear diamonds, and far from being a coal and freight carrier, I came over as a guest of the captain...
Franz Von Oy is a native of Westphalia. He studied at the Institut fur Seeverkehr and Weltwirtshaft in Kiel, taking his doctor's degree last year. It was during his studies there, in the field of social economics, that he first conceived the idea of pursuing his studies in the United States. "From the books that I read by American scholars, I perceived that I could learn much from these men. I chose Harvard because there I thought I could best get what I wanted...
...Oy found the competitive spirit of this country the feature most noticeable to the foreigner. "Everything seems to be competition, and I suppose that the sensational way in which the papers have dealt with my arrival is caused by the same force which causes Broadway to be illuminated in such an elaborate...