Word: roy
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...roared up and stopped just across the street at the post office. The post office belongs to Nell Tingley. She rents it for $11.75 a month to the Government and lives in the two rooms over it. A nice woman, from Virginia, but everyone knew her husband was Roy ("Pete") Traxler, one of the convicts who escaped from a Texas prison farm on July 8, who later kidnapped Baird H. Markham Jr., Yale junior (son of a New York oil executive), held him for a day and kept...
...National Park had a glamorous list of alumnae including Cinemactress Margaret Lindsay, Soprano Marion Claire, Irene Castle McLaughlin, the daughters of Walter P. Chrysler and Milton Snavely Hershey. Last fortnight his widow, Mrs. Teresa Catherine Ament, put National Park into the hands of an equally remarkable midwestern educator, Dr. Roy Tasco Davis, who simultaneously resigned as public relations director of Missouri's Stephens College...
...They Won't Forget, Director Mervyn Le Roy uses this situation for the most devastating study of mob violence and sectional hatred the screen has yet dared to present. There are three major suspects in the case of Mary Clay: the school's principal, the Negro janitor and Robert Hale (Edward Norris), a young Northerner who taught Mary's class and who was seen coming out of the building after the crime. To District Attorney Griffin (Claude Rains), the principal is too big a personage and the janitor too small, to serve his purpose of a spectacular...
...Pittsburgh United were in full cry for liquidation of the company, which would enable them to salvage their own equities while the common stockholders went begging. Led by Richard King Mellon, his sister, Mrs. David K. E. Bruce, and Mellon friends including Aluminum Co. of America's President Roy Arthur Hunt, they brought suit against the company's management. Pittsburgh United's President John Hartwell Hillman Jr., who is also president of an investment company which held a block of 130,900 shares of Pittsburgh United common, fought the action tooth & nail. In 1932 a compromise...
...Judge Roy Mason and wife were visitors. There are plenty of judges in his township, but a deplorable absence of customers...