Word: bankes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Champion Yates, a 24-year-old Atlanta bank clerk whose best previous accomplishment had been a Western Amateur victory in 1935, went the distinction of being the fourth U. S.-born-&-bred golfer to win the British Amateur** and the first to beat its peculiar hazards in his first competitive experience on a British course. He attributed his amazing victory to a suit of red flannel underwear his friend and fellow townsman, Bobby Jones, had given him to keep out the Scottish gales. Scottish spectators thought they had seen the greatest golfer since Bobby Jones...
...testament of Mrs. Ellen Phillips Samuel have been so many thorns in the flesh of the Fairmount Park Art Association of Philadelphia. Plump, exacting Mrs. Samuel died in 1913, leaving the association $765,000 to execute her row of dreamed-of statues along the Schuylkill's east bank. Mrs. Samuel's dream, however, gave the association the willies. They thought it smacked of waxworks...
...association cautiously produced plans for a balustrade and terrace to serve as a setting for a group of statues on the bank. Mr. Samuel threw fits. His wife, he cried, had left her money for statues, not for balustrades. At this the association threw up its hands and settled down again to wait for Joseph Bunford Samuel to mellow with...
...committee. Editor Frank was told to "sit down" while Senator Minton called his magazine "sugarcoated propaganda." Rural Progress' readers, the Senator later declared over the radio, would never have accepted the magazine had they known that "these rich people, opposed to the President, were putting up the bank roll...
...Ballantine, more or less boiled down to these three main points: 1) Control of an investment trust called First Income Trading Corp. was bought with money borrowed from Paine, Webber and repaid from First Income's own assets. 2) Control of Continental was bought from the Schroder bank by the same methods, but in an involved transaction between a) an Ontario enterprise known as Fiscal Management Company Limited, b) First Income, c) Continental, d) Schroder, e) Paine, Webber. 3) Control of Reynolds was bought from the Reynolds family and an associate with money from First Income, Continental, and (more...