Word: roy
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...morning last week dressy little Roy W. Howard, board chairman of the Scripps-Howard newspapers, was in San Francisco about to embark on a trip around the world. Just before he went aboard the S. S. President Coolidge he was handed a letter from the President of the U. S. About the same time, on the other side of the continent, Presidential Secretary Steve Early was handing out to the Press at Hyde Park the same letter, together with one Mr. Howard had previously written his good Friend Franklin Roosevelt. When this exchange of correspondence was headlined up & down...
Into this gloomy scene came an ebullient young man named Roy S. Evans who sells automobiles in Atlanta, Ga. Last week he acquired American Austin Car Co. by an outlay of just $5,000. In addition he assumed a $150,000 mortgage on the plant, $40,000 in overdue interest, $35,000 in unpaid taxes. Automan Evans said he and his associates would buy $250,000 worth of new machinery. "Within ten days," he announced, "we expect to have ready enough parts for the 10,000 Austins now running. Then we will swing into making new cars. Within a year...
...Roy, who plays the soprano saxophone, next feted hundreds of guests at a champagne breakfast in the Mayfair Hotel where "Momma" proved a hostess of surprising aplomb. Sarawak's laughing Eliza gave her husband a gold cigaret case, received a mink coat, disappeared in their snorting Sunbeam car for a three-week honeymoon at Juanles-Pins. Later she will play a 17-week engagement in Great Britain's provinces, jazz-singing with the Roy Band...
...Margie whenever she arrived (TIME, June 17). Raja Brooke's jazz-struck Eliza was for a time a friend of languorous Scottish Actor Jack Buchanan who used to sing Eliza to her and nearly got her a part in a cinema. Three years ago she graduated to Bandster Roy, who calls her "Dedi" because simple Sarawak natives know her as "The Dayang Pearl." Mr. Roy rides mornings in Rotten Row, crickets on his private cricket field, encourages "Momma" Litman to cook when friends drop in for a party at his flat at No. 60 Park Lane. Leaving Mrs. Litman...
...LINCOLN LEGEND?Roy P. Easier ?Houghton Mifflin ($3.50). An attempt to separate Lincoln the Man from Lincoln the Myth; interesting description of the growth and development of some of the tall tales of Lincoln's kindness...