Word: ballards
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Fifty years ago in southern Indiana 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...
...Edward Ballard had a gambler's impulsive temperament, but in running his 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...
...Alger '36, R. W. Anderson '39, W. W. Austin '36, D. W. Ballard '39, P. G. Bamberg '38, L. Bernstein '39, H. L. Blackwell '39, A. R. Borden '39, E. Bostwick '39, R. D. Brewer '39, E. J. Burke '36, G. N. Calkins 3L., E. D. Chase '39, I. H. Chase '39, D. S. Cheever '39, R. C. Cochrane '38, E. D. Congdon '38, F. S. Crawford 1G., D. M. Danner '39, H. N. Dillard...
...Kenneth Ballard Murdock '16, Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Professor of English, and Master of Leverett House, will take a sabbatical leave of absence from the University during the first half of 1935-36; it was announced last night...
Leverett's keynote is laissez faire. Its Master, Professor Kenneth Ballard Murdock, rounds up the most distinguished lecturers and entertainers. But, even so, Leverett students treat their House like a dormitory, mind none of their neighbors' business...