Word: tales
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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After he had finished tossing a medicine ball with President Hoover one morning last week, Assistant Secretary of the Navy Ernest Lee Jahncke told this tale about himself: two months ago, on the Baltimore-Washington highway, his car and several other cars were stopped by Prohibition agents, civilly questioned, thoroughly searched. Complacently said Secretary Jahncke: "I do not know whether the officers were State or Federal employes. I did not tell who I was. My chauffeur has specific instructions not to reveal my identity as an official of the Government. I have long since forgotten the matter and consider...
...Endowment for International Peace, and Cinemactor Charles ("Buddy") Rogers. A chocolate-brown third class passenger eclipsed in news value the entire first and second class. As he stepped ashore, "The Black Eagle of Harlem," Colonel Hubert Fauntleroy Julian, "The Negro Lindbergh," faced batteries of press cameras, eloquently told his tale...
...became a solicitor's clerk. His first published piece was How a Bill of Costs is Drawn Up; his second appeared in the late great Yellow Book. Says he: ''I write for money." He makes a good income. Some of his books: Clayhanger (pr. "Clanger"), The Old Wives' Tale, Mr. Prohack, Riceyman Steps, The Grand Babylon Hotel, Milestones (a play...
...Fairy Tale Among Factories...
Casey Jones, as all right-thinking men know, was a brave engineer. Minnesinger Shay tacks no embroidery on his tale, contents himself with reprinting a version of the famed ballad beginning, "Come all you rounders if you want to hear...