Word: roy
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Washington's new colossal Department of Commerce building. His clothing askew, his eyes bloodshot for want of sleep, he was receiving fidgety and excited businessmen at the rate of 100 per day. Occasionally he would pick up a telephone, perhaps to bark, as he did to Motormaker Roy Dikeman Chapin (Hudsons), Hoover Secretary of Commerce: "I've been listening to that line of bunk from you fellows long enough. You'd better change your tune. Good...
Four days after Scripps-Howard newspapers' short chief, Roy W. Howard, scored an interview with the Emperor of Japan (see p. 37) his successor as president of United Press, Karl A. Bickel. was received in Berlin by Chancellor Hitler, put the pertinent question whether if Nazi nationalism should spread to other lands the result would be favorable to international peace. Coining a new paradox, Herr Hitler said. "The result would be 'International Nationalism' of the highest type throughout the world. . . . This would facilitate the solution of the most difficult problems...
...Orient two months ago went two potent newspapermen, friends but rivals. One was Kent Cooper, general manager of Associated Press; the other, Roy Wilson Howard, chairman of the Scripps-Howard newspapers, editor of the New York World-Telegram and onetime president of the Scripps-founded United Press. Arriving in Tokyo together, AP's Cooper and UP's Howard were wined and dined by all bigwigs from Prince Tokugawa down. After that Mr. Cooper visited Osaka. Shanghai, Hongkong. Mr. Howard flew in a military plane to Manchuria, interviewed Japanese and Chinese generals...
...right leg, walks with a marked limp. Even to his friends he declines to explain his infirmity's cause (presumably infantile paralysis). Despite it he sails, shoots, fishes. His "new deal" for Los Angeles calls for a big public works program, and the dismissal of Chief of Police Roy Steckel and Captain William Hynes, hot Red hunter...
...Rich Publisher Roy Howard, who certainly pays no more income tax than experts assure him the law requires, was in the Far East while his paper thus distorted the normal working of the capital profit & loss section of the income...