Word: backed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Whiting, Flint, Mich., banker and carriage maker. Mr. Whiting was willing to invest in the Buick automobile, provided that Mr. Buick could demonstrate the soundness of his invention by driving it from Detroit to Flint. The first Buick started out from Detroit under its own power, but was dragged back by a team of horses. It had broken down in Pontiac. Undiscouraged, Mr. Buick started out again, this time completed his 60-mile journey. Thereupon Mr. Whiting put up $35,000. The first Buick company was organized, with Mr. Buick controlling the stock...
...Buick went back to Detroit. He had no money. He was 69. Nobody had a job for him. Finally he became instructor in the Detroit School of Trades. As he grew more feeble...
...terrible. If he dashed it off with his tongue in his cheek it's very good. There hasn't been so much plot in one place since East Lynne. It all begins in Venice with a clandestine love affair. Then comes the villain to take the hero back to his dying father. Eighteen years and a good deal of dirty work pass. The hero has married the railroad king's daughter and the heroine has become a great actress. Each thinks the other has played false. The villain has attended to that. For revenge the heroine attempts...
Conflict. Even at this late date the War's casualties continue very real in health clinics and on the stage. This is the story of the hero who won his halo largely through lack of imagination, only to find that it would not fit on the hatrack back home. It is an exceedingly interesting study of the blind arrogance of one of the War's own children in conflict with the equally blind forgetfulness of the world to which he returned. It just misses being a fine play. Its chances of success are greatly enhanced by the presence...
...summary: BATTERY A HARVARD 1932 Taylor, Caswell, No. 1 No. 1, Luton Goddard, Read, No. 2 No. 2, Castle Kimball Graves, Norton, back back, Cooke...