Word: roy
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...inspiration for cub reporters it was not, perhaps, the greatest newspaper story ever written. But cub reporters on the Telegram and all other Scripps-Howard newspapers read it with special attention because it had been dictated by the big boss himself, Roy W. Howard...
...Japanese post given President Hoover. Most expensive of diplomatic jobs (it is estimated to require $50,000 per year more than the ambassadorial salary of $17,000) it was left vacant a year ago by the resignation of Charles MacVeagh. President Hoover offered it to both Hubert Work and Roy Owen West, who both declined. The London parley necessitated an appointment, even temporary, of a man capable of conducting the intricate behind scenes negotiations incident to any international conference. A new complication had arisen with Japan's request for a change in its cruiser and submarine ratio...
...part of his policy to strengthen U. S. diplomacy in Central and South America, President Hoover made a seven-way shuffle of ministerial posts last week. Three "career" ministers were promoted to better posts: Evan E. Young from the Dominican Republic to Bolivia, Roy Tasco Davis from Costa Rica to Panama, Hans Frederick Arthur Schoenfeld from Bulgaria to Costa Rica. Four career secretaries were advanced to their first full envoyships when Julius Garecke Lay was named Minister to Honduras, Matthew Elting Hanna to Nicaragua, Post Wheeler to Paraguay, Charles Boyd Curtis to Santo Domingo. Known as "bright young men" about...
...Commerce across Lafayette Park from the White House. There under the bright flags of Columbus, DeSoto, Cortez and Cabot waited the 400 of U. S. industry-men like James Augustine Farrell (steel), Charles E. Bockus (coal), Matthew Scott Sloan (power), John G. Lonsdale (banking). Frank A. Seiberling (rubber), Roy Wilson Howard (newspapers), Frederick H. Ecker (insurance), Homer Lenoir Ferguson (shipbuilding). To a man they rose and cheered the President as he began to read them his speech...
...play will commence at 8.15 o'clock and, while in Brattle Hall, will be followed by dancing with Roy Lamson and the Harvardians furnishing the music...