Word: robert
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...business but radio the loss of a million and a half account would be a crusher, but to NBC it was just an unhappy horse trade. NBC lost Amos 'n' Andy, but promptly picked off the Robert Benchley-Artie Shaw Old Gold show, a Sunday night half-hour that was bringing CBS $10,830 weekly. This becomes an NBC show beginning...
...last fortnight Dr. Robert Gordon Sproul, president of University of California, received a telephone call from his friend Mortimer Fleishhacker, a regent of the university and board chairman of the potent Anglo California National Bank of San Francisco. He had heard, said Fleishhacker, that an unnamed bank had offered Dr. Sproul a job. "Will you take the presidency of Anglo California," asked Mr. Fleishhacker, "at $50,000 a year...
Last week the large city hall in St. Joseph, Mo. was packed with giggling spectators. In front of the courtroom stalked three circus giants: 40-year-old Glenn Hyder of Kansas City, Mo., 35year-old Texan Jack Earle, 21-year-old Robert Pershing Wadlow of Alton...
Reason for the convention: Robert Wadlow, tallest man in the world (he claims an alltime high of 8 ft. 8 in.), had brought suit for $100,000 against Dr. Charles Dean Humberd of Barnard, Mo. Dr. Humberd had described Wadlow, in a scientific article in the Journal of the American Medical Association, as "apathetic, unfriendly, antagonistic...
...Robert's mother, father, teachers and the manufacturer of his size 37 shoes said that he was "obedient," "bright," interested in Chinese checkers, ping-pong and girls, ate little more than an average man. He was also kind to little children. Dr. Louis Henry Behrens of St. Louis said that he was a normal boy except for his size and his "beautiful hands...