Word: youngs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Boys. Felix Frankfurter's notes recommending young lawyers-over a scrawled "FF"-fluttered into Washington long before the New Deal (Corcoran, for instance, was a gift to Hoover's RFC). The fact that 125 "happy hot dogs" are in Washington today spurred General Hugh Johnson to call Professor Frankfurter "the most influential single individual...
Kentucky (Loretta Young, Richard Greene, Walter Brennan; TIME...
...happened, however, that Japan's Minister of Finance, Seihin Ikeda, was formerly managing director of the vast Mitsui Bank (he was rumored marked for assassination in the February 1936 uprising of young army officers) and his daughter married into one of Japan's four wealthiest families. For long he has rebelled at the army's proposal; last week it was rumored that, for the sake of his conscience and his skin, he was getting out. Prince Fumimaro Konoye, golf-playing descendant of a long line of courtiers, has from the beginning disliked his job. For 19 months...
...Year's Day 1929, a confused young man named Roy Riegels picked up a fumbled football, ran 75 yards with it-in the wrong direction. Some 70,000 pairs of eyes saw him do it, and millions of ears at radios heard that Roy Riegels, captain-elect of the University of California football team, had presented the Rose Bowl game to Georgia Tech...
...grim, clenched, bellicose. But the social message of Irwin Shaw's "Brooklyn fable" is as softly conveyed as a woman's "Yes." The Gentle People is the story of two benevolent middle-aged cronies down Coney Island way who love to fish of an evening. A tough young gangster (Franchot Tone) extorts "protection money" from them. He seduces one man's daughter (Sylvia Sidney). At length he demands their savings. Their patience pushed too far, the outraged cronies decide to drown their tormentor. Once they do, everybody becomes as happy as a clam at high tide...