Word: youngsters
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Burley tobacco. He died before he made much, leaving a farm to his three daughters, $2,000 each to his two sons. The sons applied their inheritance to paying off the mortgage on the sisters' farm, set off to shift for themselves. Aged 20, a brawny big youngster, Jesse found himself in Dallas, Tex. He had no money but he did have a well-connected uncle. The uncle ran the M. T. Jones Lumber Co., gave Jesse a job in one of its yards. In a year Jesse was yard manager. In three years he was general manager...
...Cummings snapped up the invitation the same afternoon. His first job as a youngster was with the Illinois Trust & Savings Bank (whence the "Illinois" in ''Continental Illinois'') but since then he has been a traction man, a manufacturer, not a banker. Of his 25 directorships not one is on the board of a bank. One of them, however, is on the board of American Car & Foundry Co. of which William Woodin was head. That contact seemed to explain why Mr. Cummings was made president of Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. The RFC in its announcement listed among...
Jacobites to the end, the Macleans of Duart were dispossessed from the Isle of Mull in 1691. Eighty years ago Sir Fitzroy, then a beardless youngster, sailed out from the mainland on a yachting cruise with his father. They passed Mull. On a headland jutting into the water were a few tumbled walls-all that remained of his ancestors' castle. Later young Fitzroy joined the army, got a commission from the Duke of Wellington, fought the Russians at Sebastopol. He served in Canada for three years, and as a good Maclean he was always careful with his money...
Educator John Dewey stared, smiled and applauded. Neurologist Stewart Paton stared, smiled and applauded. Geneticist Charles Benedict Davenport stared, smiled and applauded. Likewise did four dozen other specially invited guests at the performances of a 19-month old boy known as Johnny. They watched the youngster critically as he climbed up a steep plank to get a banana, as he dropped down from a 5-ft. perch (see cut, p. 18), as he got around on roller skates, as he picked out familiar objects from a pile of hells, pencils, spoons and other miscellany-all the while gibbling &; gabbling with...
...newspictures, shaking fists at each other. Once during last week's race Letourner took a punch at Debaets for cutting in front of him. Debaets pulled the Frenchman off his wheel and both men went sprawling. Letourner was fined $25. Debaets' partner, Norman Hill, a handsome youngster from San Jose, Calif., is all-around bicycle champion...