Word: roy
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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After marching with other editors & publishers in Manhattan's monster NRA parade (see p. 12) Arthur Brisbane wrote in his Hearstpaper colyum: "Many had not walked so far, nearly a mile and a half, in long years. Roy Howard stood the trip well; Kobler not so well, he is making money rapidly and getting...
Crashes. Second day brought a stiff wind, bumpy air and the meet's first fatality. Just after noon 27-year-old Roy Liggett of Omaha went up for a trial run. Nosing his plane into a 25-mile wind, he was making 200 m.p.h. at about 500 ft. when his left wing suddenly dropped off. The little red racer rolled over, dove cock-pit-deep into a cornfield. The fabric ripped from a wing of the yellow-&-red G. B. racer as Florence E. Klingensmith, 26, of Minneapolis was driving it around a pylon. The plane tottered into...
...Milledgeville, Ga., Roy McCullough was sent to prison for a misdemeanor, found his father Alvin, whom he had not seen for 21 years, in the death cell awaiting execution for murder...
...Prohibition Bureau, which came into being as a Treasury appendage on Jan. 16. 1920. Its direction ranged from the optimistic ballyhoo of Roy Asa Haynes through the sword-rattling of General Lincoln Clark Andrews to the do-nothing calm of Dr. James Maurice Doran. In 19.30 it was transferred to the Department of Justice. In 13 years it spent more than $100,000,000, took more than 250 lives. Last week its last director, Major Alfred Vernon Dalrymple, went bitterly out of office with familiar charges of "duplicity, double-crossing and double-dealing" against his subordinates. The Prohibition Bureau ceased...
Hail In Richland County, Wis., Roy Ewing ran barefoot to his barn wrecked by a July hailstorm, stood ankle-deep in hail while freeing his cattle, had his feet frozen...