Word: backed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...gold racquets bat bandied back and forth between the Messrs. Mortimer and Pell since 1914 and won last fortnight by Mr. Pell at Tuxedo does not, as reported by TIME last week, symbolize the amateur championship but is comparable to the gold mashie played for annually on the private golf links of the late T. Suffern Tailer at Newport...
...pieces, representing every arm of war. Sixteen levels are used, affecting the "travel" and "range" of the miniature units. The game is played in weekly sessions over a period of months. Five Generals and a Commander-in-Chief play simultaneously on each side. The Commander-in-Chief walks back and forth behind his subordinates, surveying the entire field of action, and issues sealed orders on printed forms at half-day intervals. An electric clock rings a gong every 15 minutes, which is the equivalent of the half-day period. Mr. Geddes is one commander. Famed Chess-Player Edward Lasker...
...Railroads have their controlled lines. Like Morocco to France, for instance, is the Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago & St. Louis R. R. (Big Four) to the New York Central. And as the Great Powers suspiciously eyed each other's excursions in remote Asia and Africa, so each Great Railroad arches its back when a rival seeks to acquire some little road which to the outsider might appear to carry merchandise of driblet volume between terminals of meagre importance...
...Buffalo & Niagara Falls Railway. He organized the Electric City Bank, then went to the Pacific Coast and organized the North Coast R. R. An even more famed organizer, the late great Harriman, offered him a job, but, "No," said he, "I don't care much for railroads." Back to New York State he went. He had decided that Albany had no hotel worthy of the State capital. He built the Ten Eyck. Later, his second hotel - the Onondaga, Syracuse - was built. Then came the Benjamin Franklin in Philadelphia, the Bancroft in Worcester, Mass., the President in Kansas City...
...Commerce, U. S. almost-billion-dollar bank. Should a ghost with the gift of flitting through walls flit through the rear wall of Guaranty Trust and continue flitting, it would flit through the rear wall of National Bank of Commerce. For these two great U. S. banks stand back to back. Between them they own almost the entire block bounded by Broadway and Nassau, Cedar, Liberty Streets...