Word: roy
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...manager can't go out and make a decent kick, what the hell is the game coming to? I didn't swear at him but he swore at us." Said Coach John Corriden: ''He was guilty of antagonizing and demoralizing our ball club. . . ." Coach Roy Johnson accused Umpire Moriarty of making improper reflections on the Cubs' ancestry. Said the National League's President Ford Frick: "Moriarty used blasphemous language. . . ." Next day, baseball's Tsar Kenesaw Mountain Landis held a conference with all principals involved, announced he might do something when the Series ended...
...singlehanded saved the bank. The small, dynamic priest buttonholed Ticonderogans, bluntly demanded or cleverly cajoled contributions. Today Ticonderoga National Bank has some $1,000,000 in assets. In gratitude its directors elected Father Stevens to their board, made him honorary vice president. Fortnight ago the bank's President Roy Lockwood resigned in ill health. Unanimously the other Protestant directors chose Father Stevens to succeed him. Last week he accepted, aware that only nominally would he fill the unprecedented role of banker-priest. His term expires in four months; his only duties are to sign papers, attend meetings. Said...
Defying all the laws of ballistics, the Powell performance trajectory kept going up & up. He was made assistant to executive Editor Lee Wood of the World-Telegram. Nearly three years ago he became Editor of the Indianapolis Times (circ.: 80,000 ). a pet paper of chain-publisher Roy Howard because it was in Indianapolis, 33 years ago. that he got his first job writing high-school sports. On the Times Editor Powell's flair for dramatizing news soon whipped circulation and profits up 20%. Last year his performance curve reached a new high when he went out to investigate...
...King bestowed the gold-plated solid silver badge of an Officer of the Order of the British Empire on the physician of His Majesty's quintuplet wards, Dr. Allan Roy Dafoe...
...jumped trading to more than 2,000,000 shares per day. Up jumped the price of New York Stock Exchange seats to $135,000, more than twice the Depression low. And thus, for two successive days last week following the release of President Roosevelt's letter to Publisher Roy Howard promising a "breathing spell" for Business (see p. 11), the stockmarket made front-page news...