Word: ballards
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rich and great, the acquisition of "Inisfada" was almost routine. Though they enjoy no personal property, many Jesuits work and study in places like the vast Massachusetts estate of the late W. E. D. Stokes, and in the hotel at West Baden, Ind. which the late Edward Ballard gave them. To the giver-away of "Inisfada" and its treasures, Mrs. Genevieve Garvan Brady, the decision she made public last week marked a definite turning point in an unusual life...
Associated Harvard Clubs Frederick Ayer '11 Ralph Ballard Arthur A.Ballantine '04 Gaspar G. Bacon '08 John B. Bowditch Howard W. Brown '95 R.Ammi Carter Richard C. Curtis '16 James B. Conant '14 W. K. Castle Greenville Clark '03 Robert F. Duncan '12 Harvard Club of Boston Parmeley W. Herrick '04 Christian A. Herter 2d '15 J. Horton Ijams '06 Thomas S. Lamont '21 Robert Luce '82 William R. Peabody '95 Erank E. Parker, Jr. '18 Charles F. Bowley '04 Loverett Saltonstall '14 Charles M. Storey '11 John H. Sherburne '98 Henry Ware '93 Charles H. Warner, Jr. '20 Alexander Wheeler...
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...
Last week, Edward Ballard, retired, had a son a senior at Yale, a daughter in the Bennett finishing school (Millbrook, N. Y.), and he and his wife were enjoying their usual autumn holiday at Hot Springs, Ark. In a bedroom of the fashionable Arlington Hotel he met the one-time associate of his Florida days, Silver Bob Alexander. That afternoon the double zero of life's roulette wheel came up for Gambler Ballard: Alexander, 33, was said to be down on his luck, bitter against Ballard, whom he had unsuccessfully sued for $250,000 for breach of contract...
Died. Charles Edward ("Ed") Ballard, 63, oldtime hotelman, gambling house and circus proprietor of French Lick, Ind.; from a bullet fired by his onetime Partner Robert ("Silver Bob") Alexander of Detroit, who next shot himself; in Hot Springs...