Word: yon
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...yon are interested in fair play you will do the State of Oklahoma the honor of publishing a corrective reply to your recent article in which you publicized the life and reputation of the Honorable C. N. Haskell the first governor of the State of Oklahoma. You do Oklahoma and its people an irreparable injury when you make such comment Upon the State its people and its first governor as that published in your magazine of recent day. The Oklahoma State Senate in special session has prepared and adopted a reply to that article . . . in the hope that you will...
...world can safely abandon its use altogether but it has not yet reached that point. . . . The fears and apprehensions directed to the stability of first one nation and then another have caused . . . large flows of gold to meet exchange demands. . . . Thus a mass of gold dashing hither and yon from one nation to another, seeking maximum safety, has acted like a cannon loose on the deck of the world in a storm...
...Yon are not dead. You dead of ours
...bottle will fill up quickly." Norman B. Collins, president of Security Bank and Second Security Bank of Chicago, and his wife were kidnapped in Wilmette (Chicago suburb) by five men in a black sedan who demanded $100,000 ransom. Arguing with their captors as they drove hither & yon, Mr. & Mrs. Collins got the demand down to $5,000. She was released to telephone to Chairman James B. Forgan Jr. of Second Security Bank, while Banker Collins rode on in the black sedan. Banker Collins was later released, failed to say whether or not ransom was paid...
...Vagabond, dozing in his favorite armchair, and pulling peacefully on his favorite briar, watched a bookcase full of forbidding volumes slowly sink into a summer sea, precisely the same sea, in fact, on which the Vagabond had stemmed his way hither and yon in the breezes of August. A scene fished upon his inner eye,--the scene of two vessels, well out to sea, one a stately yacht, glistening with brass and pearly canvas, the other a grim, gray cutter of the revenue fleet. At the same moment a puff of white smoke escaped the muzzle of the signal...