Word: andrews
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Outside the ring, Max Baer played the part of a merry Andrew. During the year of his suspension, he bought two 16-cylinder Cadillacs, soon lacked money to run them. In Reno, he met and married a Dorothy Dunbar with whom he has since quarreled and made up seven times. When he left Reno for New York, he had with him a chauffeur, a valet, a dietitian and a present from Dorothy Dunbar, Emily Post's Book of Etiquette, which he read when he was supposed to be doing roadwork. Like Carnera, Baer has been sued by a waitress...
...Captain Andrew Kerr (Colin Clive) is a British officer stationed at Dublin. His friend Captain Tennant (William Powell), who has had an affair with Mrs. Kerr (Edna Best) before her marriage, attempts to revive it when they meet again. Captain Kerr finds out about this the evening he gets back from capturing Sinn Fein Leader Pedar Conlan. Dejected, he stumps out of his house and into a Sinn Fein ambush which enables Tennant to make a handsome gesture. He forges an order for the release of Conlan, obtains the release of Captain Kerr in exchange, lights a cigaret...
Economics Statistics was founded by three bright young disciples of Economist Lewis Henry Haney of New York University-George Ogden Trenchard, Jules Blackman and Andrew Lavell Jackson, great-grandson of Thomas Jonathan ("Stonewall") Jackson and onetime editor of Bradstreet. Working in Wall Street by day and plugging for Ph.D.'s by night, they absorbed Professor Haney's theories of forecasting business by analyzing demand-supply factors, amplified his statistical methods, established the service just a year ago. Their clients already include nearly every big Manhattan bank, countless brokers, such major industrials as General Motors and International Harvester...
...Andrew Jackson was fighting the Bank of the United States and New York commerce was paralyzed by an epidemic of cholera when the Bowery Savings Bank opened for business one hundred years ago last week. The Bowery was notorious for two things: vice and thrift. Fifty men and women, butchers, grocers, seamstresses, shoemakers, came in the first night to deposit savings of $2,020 which later were kept in the bank's two tiny leather-covered chests. A mutual savings institution for the poor and downtrodden, Bowery Savings was heavy with the smell of Sunday School and the mission...
...KHARDUNI-Andrew Soutar-Macaulay...