Word: roy
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bills. Two periwigged clerks stood before the silk-robed Lord Chancellor, read out the name of each bill passed at this session of Parliament. After each item (regulation of motor traffic, working hours for barbers, etc. etc.) the first clerk bowed solemnly, the second boomed out "Le Roy le veult...
Widely quoted as a bearish argument have been recent wagecuts by such large companies as Chrysler Corp. and National Cash Register Co. (10% each last month). Last week Roy Dickinson, alert associate editor of Printers' Ink (22,645 circulation, advertising trade weekly) telegraphed a list of tycoons to learn what future wage reductions may be in store. Some of the replies which he received...
Barnstormer. Roy ("Jack Dare") Ahearn, famed barnstormer, parachute jumper and stuntflyer, head of the Red Wing Flying Circus, took a French Albert parasol monoplane aloft over Teterboro, N. J. At 4,000 ft. he dove the tiny craft in an attempted outside loop. The plane's 40-h. p. motor would not pull out of it. Four times Pilot Ahearn climbed slowly back to make another try. On the final attempt he threw the throttle open, held the plane's nose down longer than before. The wing tore loose, fluttered away. Un- checked, the fuselage bored down into the earth...
Next morning President-elect Prestes and party sped from Washington back to Manhattan, cruised up to West Point in the Jamaroy (yacht of Scripps-Howard Chairman Roy W. Howard) escorted by the U. S. destroyer King, then returned by motor to Manhattan for "several days of rest" before they sailed on the Olympic for Europe...
...Gobi. Begun last month was another of Roy Chapman Andrews' perennial excursions into the dismal wastes of Gobi Desert. Prime object of the expedition: to find traces of some twigs from the family tree of the "Peking Man." world's earliest human discovered comparatively recently near Peking by Pei Wen-chung, Chinese archeologist...