Word: shoes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Quiet and aloof, Harry Wolfe is the opposite of Bob. Other present-day Wolfes are Old Bob's son, Edgar, and Harry's three sons, Robert, H. Preston and Richard. Each has an equal voice in running the family shoe business, banks (BancOhio Corporation) newspapers and radio station (WBNS). Only unanimous decisions are acted upon. The Wolfes also own Ohio Agricultural Lands, Inc.-5,536 acres of choicest farmland in nearby counties, where they raise 12,000 hogs, 2,000 cattle, feed 10,000 sheep a year...
Thousands of shoe-shine urchins assail the unprotected individual in a wicked conspiracy to prevent him from going into Felix...
Both girls had on flapping sandals which they said a "stage-door Johnny" had given them one night. The gentleman in question being in somewhat drunken condition, had allowed them to take their pick in his shoe store, they said...
Penn Tuttle, who comes next down the line, made his bid for fame in the Boston University race, where he decided to emulate the feat of Alec Northrup, and run with only one shoe. When Northrup lost his shoe in last year's New England Relays, he turned in a 4:17 mile; and Tuttle did almost equally well as he ran beautifully to take first place--despite the fact that over the last three miles of the course he had one shoe on and one shoe off. Mikkola has only one thing to add about him--"if he could...
...some months ago, Mrs. Roosevelt casually remarked, mentioning no names, that she had tried on a pair of shoes which "make standing for hours a pleasure." After investigating, the radio MARCH OF TIME re-enacted on the air her White House fitting by the shoe's inventor, 54-year-old, Syrian-born Cobbler James Fikany. Last week, in Rochester, N. Y., Cobbler Fikany acknowledged the happy result. Deluged with orders from the U. S., Canada and England, he proudly signed articles for a $250,000 corporation. His backers hoped to expand the little Fikany business into an enterprise...