Word: roy
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...yellow scratchpad were sure that Republican Nominee Alf M. Landon's acceptance speech last week (see above) was his own composition. But they also knew that that crucial declaration had, as a matter of course, been passed on by the nominee's chief political strategists, Managing Editor Roy Roberts and Kansas Manager Lacy Haynes of the Kansas City Star. They knew, too, that, as he grappled with complex national issues, modest, provincial Governor Landon had gladly turned for help on phrases, facts, ideas to the four advisers who, he insists, are not a "brain trust"-Charles Phelps Taft...
Dentists smiled at such punning, wished it would stop. As he was about to turn over A. D. A.'s presidency to Dr. Leroy Matthew Simpson ('"Roy") Miner of Boston last week, Dr. George Ben Winter, St. Louis exodontist (specialist in tooth pulling), observed that only a hundred years ago all U. S. dentists were "drawn from the ranks of the artisans, goldsmiths, blacksmiths and barbers." Since then dentists have improved in knowledge, skill and culture. Yet so halting has been their social progress that an official A. D. A. committee last week was obliged to report...
Quintuplet-Deliverer Dr. Alan Roy Dafoe and the original Dionne midwives were not called in for last week's proceedings because of their association in Mr. and Mrs. Dionne's mind with the hated Ontario Government which tore the Quintuplets from their poor home, made them the luxurious handmaidens of science and official wards of the King. Beamed new Deliverer Dr. Ildor Joyal of North Bay: "Un gros garçon! A real bouncer! A really strong and healthy baby, messieurs! Nor have I ever seen a more radiant and joyful mother...
Baroness Kunegunde von Richthofen, spry, greying mother of the late Baron Manfred von Richthofen, Germany's No. 1 War Ace (80 victories), arrived at Montreal on her first visit to Canada. A Canadian war pilot, Captain Roy Brown, now head of Canada's General Airways, was officially credited with shooting down Ace von Richthofen. Last week Baroness von Richthofen asserted that her son had been downed by Australian artillery fire as he flew low in a dogfight with Captain Brown...
...James A. Farley was castigated for making "a spoilsman's happy hunting ground of the Postal Department," which in turn was felicitated in an adjoining column for "a swell job on its bonus bond deliveries." All of which indicated that in his 36 years in the newspaper business, Roy Howard has learned, like a movie hero's wife, how to be an office holder's best pal and severest critic...