Word: roy
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Roosevelt for the same reason we think we would have been for Jefferson or Jackson or Lincoln had we lived in their day." Since providing President Roosevelt with a take-off for his famed "breathing spell" announcement (TIME, Sept. 16, 1935). Scripps-Howard's dapper little Publisher Roy W. Howard has kept out of the political spotlight. Last week he was having a breathing spell from...
...Francisco Chronicle, the Se attle Times and the Portland Oregonian have managed to be strongly pro-Landon without being rabidly anti-Roosevelt. Despite the fact that its Roy Roberts and Lacy Haynes are Alf Landon's closest advisers, the Kansas City Star has gone so far as to criticize mildly the Republican Nominee's tariff views...
...break the news of Edward VIII's intentions. From London by telephone suddenly came to Hearst editors, with authority to front-page it at once, a story to rank with some of the achievements of Mr. Hearst's only real rival in U. S. publisher-reporting, Roy Wilson Howard. This dispatch, couched in a style almost unmistakably the "Chief's" own, reported England's biggest news since the death of George V as follows...
...onetime ditchdigger and sculptor's assistant named Jim McClellan, Mrs. Demetrios, wife of Sculptor George Demetrios, a farmer's daughter named Olga. He named the canvas The Road From the Cove, sent it to Pittsburgh, where it was judged preeminent by an exacting jury: precise Surrealist Pierre Roy of France; British Muralist Alfred Kingsley Lawrence; ailing Edward Bruce, director of the first Federal Art Projects; convivial Guy Pène du Bois. To win over the 323 other entries from six countries, Artist Kroll's canvas had to beat...
...take up walking sticks against Vice in the big city of Quebec. Laval's Three Musketeers, Gilles Ayotte, Paul Emile Brazeau and Jean Paul Tremblay, did not act until they had on their side a recent angry declaration in the Quebec Court of Sessions by Judge Laetare Roy that the authorities were "flagrantly failing in their duty" to stamp out Vice. After reading this the French-Canadian students sallied forth one night last week, broke into eight houses of prostitution in succession, whacked naked inmates upon the buttocks, upset beds and tore up bedding, ripped lighting fixtures from...