Word: ayers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...squad of customs agents waited one evening last week outside of River House, swank apartment building on Manhattan's east side, until a limousine drove up and deposited a stately, well-dressed dowager: Mrs. James C. Ayer, Colonial Dame and D. A. R., widow of a distinguished doctor who inherited millions of the American Woolen Co. fortune. The customs men followed her up to the Ayer penthouse, there spent three hours going through her personal effects while Mrs. Ayer lay prostrate on a couch. An informer whom they would call only "Mary Doe" had told the Federal men where...
...American Press Association Directory this month showed that newspapers in towns of less than 20,000 increased by 194 to a total of 10,179 in 1938. All but a handful are weeklies. X. W. Ayer & Son's Directory shows that dailies declined last year from...
...Manhattan, U. S. District Court Judge Vincent L. Leibell ordered Loews Inc. and three subsidiaries to pay Authors Edward Sheldon and Margaret Ayer Barnes $532,153 for plagiarizing their play Dishonored Lady, produced in 1930, in the picture Letty Lynton, produced...
...William M. Wood took over the management of certain textile mills belonging to the Ayer interests which had operated on part time for three years at a loss; he put all mills at full capacity, cut prices to the bone, soon made so much money that the company expanded into the vast American Woolen...
Goals--Harvard: von Stade 4, Dillingham 4, Forbes 3, Rumsey 1; Myopia: Seamon 3. Clark 1, Ayer...