Word: baden
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...lived an Orange County farmer named Ballard, who had five sons. One of them, Edward, early showed enterprise. He used to deliver the laundry which his mother did for people who were taking the cure at neighboring French Lick. Soon he was graduated into a saloon in adjoining West Baden, next became a croupier in a gambling room run by a Negro in the West Baden Springs Hotel. In his mid-twenties he bought the gambling club for himself. After a decade or so more, he bought Brown's Hotel in French Lick and converted it into a gambling...
...casino he was shrewd and businesslike. No local resident was ever permitted in his gambling rooms, no liquor was ever allowed, all patrons had to wear evening dress, no employe was permitted to wager a nickel. One year Gamester Ballard made $1,000,000. He bought the West Baden Springs Hotel, and later, with a Detroit gambler, Robert ("Silver Bob") Alexander, also opened a gambling place at Miami. After a time Ballard withdrew from the Association. In the same era he plunged into the circus business. He bought Hagenbeck & Wallace Circus which was about to go on the rocks, soon...
Depression cut into the revenues of Ballard's French Lick and West Baden business and one day in August 1934, realizing that he was over 60, he came suddenly to a decision. No Catholic, Ballard on the inspiration of the moment presented his huge circular West Baden Springs Hotel (once valued at $3,000,000) as a gift to the Jesuits, to be turned into a college. Before the day was out he called his cousin and employe, Norman Ballard, into his office and sold him Brown's and the Gorge, a neighboring gambling place. By nightfall...
Married. Betty Baden-Powell, daughter of Lieut.-General Sir Robert Baden-Powell, who founded the Boy Scouts and Girl Guides (British Girl Scouts); and Gervas Clay, Rhodesia official; in Bentley, England...
Such were the facts about a new synthetic fibre, recited last week in Kansas City, by Dr. Ernest Baden Benger of du Pont de Nemours & Co. Nearly 2,000 chemists, some of them from England, Switzerland and Holland, were assembled there for the 91st convention of the American Chemical Society...