Word: young
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...predecessor was bumbling Democrat Martin Luther Davey, whose administration thoroughly fed up Ohioans of all parties. Last week Governor Bricker signed one of several bills designed to oust Davey holdovers. His latest "ripper" ejected from the State parole board the former Governor's former secretary, Mrs. Myrna Young Smith, whom Martin Davey appointed just before he left office...
Robert Marcus Burgunder Jr. was generally regarded by those who knew him as a model young man. He was smart. He was well-behaved. During school vacations he worked in the Wrest Coast harvest fields, drove a tractor on a cinema studio lot, organized magazine sales crews. Robert's father is a respected lawyer in Seattle, a onetime prosecuting attorney. Robert followed each one of his father's criminal cases with intense interest, spotting in each case the malefactor's errors which led to detection and capture. Mr. Burgunder was somewhat puzzled by this queer absorption...
...Phoenix last fortnight, two automobile salesmen were lounging in their showroom when a mannerly young man walked in, asked for a demonstration. All three went out in a car. They were not heard from again. From descriptions given them, police guessed that young Burgunder was one of the party...
Minnesota's New Republican Governor Harold Stassen last week presented himself in Washington as a young man worthy of note because: 1) he had just put a bang-up, middle-of-the-road reform program through his first Legislature, and 2) he cannot run for the Presidency next year. He is 32, will be nicely past the Constitutional minimum of 35 in 1944. Harold Stassen's first purpose in visiting Washington was to promote cooperation between his reorganized State Government and the Roosevelt Administration. His second was to tell G. 0. P. Chairman John Hamilton how to turn...
...little too much for a diplomat's wife. Result was that soon Comrade Ivy was reported as having "moved" to Sverdlovsk, in the Ural Mountains, some 900 miles east of Moscow, where she was following her big hobby of teaching "basic English"-some 850 "essential" English words-to young Russians. Mme Litvinoff was brought back to Moscow for big social functions of the Foreign Commissariat. Last autumn, however, at the usual Soviet reception to diplomats the invitations were written simply in the name of the Foreign Commissar, omitted the usual mention of Mme Litvinoff...