Word: auto
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...know it has class." A. A. U. officials decided that the advertisement broke a regulation which says that amateur athletes may not give out testimonials. Miss Didrikson's reply was that she had not been paid for the testimonial, that she had not authorized it. E. Gordon Perry, auto dealer of Dallas, revealed that he had sold a car to Miss Didrikson a year ago, mailed her compliments on it to his home office. A. A. U. officials announced that if Miss Didrikson could prove, by suing the advertisers for causing her to lose her amateur standing, that...
Born. To Bernice Chrysler Garbisch, daughter of Auto Tycoon Walter Percy Chrysler; and Edgar William Garbisch...
When the tougher grind of match play began the next day, the younger golfers suffered retribution for their medal performances. Ouimet, playing like an auto-matic stoker, put out George Voigt 6 & 5. Voigt was one under par for the first nine holes - and 4 down. Ouimet had played the nine in 30. A young Yale player, Sidney W. Noyes, pressed Ouimet in the afternoon but was put out 1 down...
...Malcolm Campbell, record-holding auto speedster, was chosen chief of a volunteer squad organized at Reigate, England to chase British motor bandits...
Gillette Suit. Just before the merger of Gillette Safety Razor Co. with Auto-Strop Safety Razor Co. a small group of Gillette stockholders started suit to have certain directors return $21,000,000 to the company. The minority group claimed that capital had been impaired by $13,000,000, that $8,000,000 was lost when the directors ordered the company to buy 214,000 shares of its own stock at allegedly excessive prices. Some of the stock was purchased from a pool operated by several of the directors. Since then each director except the late King Camp Gillette...