Word: blocking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Outside Congress: He lives at No. 857 Green Street in San Francisco, swims regularly at the Olympic Club. His Washington home on Maryland Ave. S. E., half a block from the Capitol plaza is an old renovated brick house filled with French period furniture. There he lives with his wife, the former Minnie McNeal who, aged 17, married him, aged 20, in 1886. Their two sons practice law in San Francisco. Worried about his waist line, he works daily in the Senate gymnasium. Joe, his Chinese cook, he has had for over 20 years. He gets about in a Locomobile...
Obviously 'Coach Stubbs' men were not playing the sterling brand of hockey that they have sprung on several occasions earlier in the season. deGive was not in the best of form and Torouto seemed to be able to surround and block off the Crimson sextet at will. Fifteen Harvard spares went in to stem the tide but could not stand the pace. Baldwin saved the team from a white-wash by an unassisted score two minutes before the close of the game. Both Princeton and Yale have succumbed...
...Tabor acquired a better mine from a swindler who, thinking his land worthless, had sprinkled silver on top of it without bothering to look beneath the surface. Equipped with fabulous wealth, Tabor gave Denver a munificent opera house with his name engraved on a two-foot block of silver. He got himself elected lieutenant governor, divorced his wife, Augusta, to marry a mining camp belle named Baby Doe. President Arthur attended the wedding, in Washington, just after Haw Tabor had wangled himself a seat in the U. S. Senate. Tabor spent $1,000 on a silk and lace nightshirt with...
There is an old Wall Street saw that you cannot mix horses and stocks, but Benjamin Block's first horse was a great horse. Kentucky Derby-winner Morvich. Morvich was beaten in his 13th start? and never won another race. Twice a year Broker Block journeys to Elizabeth Pinkney Daingerfield's famed farm near Lexington. Ky. to spend a few hours with Morvich, his brood mares and his colts. "Some day," he says, "I'll have another Derby winner by Morvich. That's a prediction...
Tall, dominating, tight-lipped Benjamin Block lives at Manhattan's Ritz Tower, has no country estate. He is no kin to Publisher Paul Block. He says he does not plan to retire from all business activity but has no plans for the future. Benjamin Block & Co. was reorganized as Anderson. Block & Co. with Block's son John Horace as a partner. Son Horace's friends refer to him as "old Block's chip...