Word: baileys
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Others are Irving W. Bailey and Ralph H. Wetmore for one investigation; Kenneth T. Bainbridge, John C. Baker, Henry B. Bigelow, Percy W. Bridgman, Huntington Brown, Frank M. Carpenter, Arthur Casagrande, Phillip C. Rutledge, William B. Castle, Dana B. Durand, John T. Edsall, Louis C. Graton, Ernest B. Dane, Jr., Alden B. Greninger, Richmond L. Hawkins...
...CHELSEA BAILEY...
...been up in an airplane with Grahame White (1910), paid a $25 fine for driving without a license and driven a four-in-hand coach down Manhattan's Fifth Avenue on a January morning to win a $25 bet (1912). She had swum 4¼ miles, from Bailey's Beach to First Beach. Newport, and formed the nucleus of a collection of cups which, when she last counted them, numbered 240. She had also been one of New England's outstanding trapshooters. She once organized a football team on which she played fullback. She also played baseball...
...Despite his years at Harrow and at Cambridge, Byron never quite learned what was cricket and what was not. If many of his acts had been committed by anyone other than a poet, that person would long ago have found himself in the dock of the historians' Old Bailey, and the unanimous verdict of those moralists would have condemned him to everlasting infamy as a cad. Even as it is, his biography is not a pretty tale, but it has the sort of satanic interest which always clings to the "roses and raptures of vice." Of all its episodes...
According to one witness at the Old Bailey trial, Howeson's flier in pepper was a complete side-show for him. Garabed Bishirgian was a Howeson crony, and while transactions were for the account of a company headed by Howeson, the pepper trading was done through Bishirgian & Co. Messrs. Bishirgian & Howeson started to play the shellac market late in 1933, switched to white pepper in 1934 with the idea of cornering the world supply. By that summer the Howeson firm was loaded up with some $2,000,000 worth of shellac and about $5,000,000 worth of pepper...