Word: bryan
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...founded the World in 1885. After its merger with the Herald in 1889 he slowly bought out his flagging partners and whipped banker-creditors who tried to dictate the paper's policy. Under Senator Hitchcock the World-Herald became an influential organ of liberal Democracy, with William Jennings Bryan its editor for two years before his first Presidential nomination. When the new century began Publisher Hitchcock was badly in debt, but when he died three years ago his paper was worth $8,000,000, 58% of which became the property of Son-in-Law Doorly and his family...
...field was good but there was no one in it whom Donald Budge should be expected to fear. Of his Davis Cup teammates, Frank Parker is a precise but lacklustre youth who has never fulfilled his apparent potentialities, and Atlanta's bantam Bryan ("Bitsy") Grant is a highly erratic performer. California's most recent schoolboy sensation, 19-year-old Robert Riggs, who was seeded No. 2 among his countrymen and proceeded to put Gene Mako out as the matches got under way at Forest Hills last week, had bowed to Budge when they met at Newport last month...
...trouper friends, passes out in the arms of Michael Michailow (Basil Rathbone), a melancholy musician perennially bent on seduction. When Leonide finds Vera in Michailow's apartment he jumps heavily at the worst conclusion, promptly divorces her and takes her baby daughter. Years later Daughter Lisa (Jane Bryan), fatherless now and unaware that Vera is her mother, is escorted into a cabaret one night by villainous Michailow. There Vera, who wears a blonde wig and works as an entertainer, spies them. With her maternal instincts at boiling point, she seizes a handy revolver, riddles Michailow with steely questions...
...last week in Philadelphia was a convenient 236-page treatise, Algebra for Parents* calculated to save elders considerable embarrassment when asked to explain anything from simple addition to the binomial theorem. It was as ingratiating, discursive, and adroit as its author, a 59-year-old Philadelphia lawyer named Samuel Bryan Scott...
...between the U. S. and Germany. Soon as the draw was announced last week, experts alsc knew that the U. S. and Germany would split the first two matches-U. S. No. i Donald Budge trouncing Henner Ernst Otto Henkel, and German No. i Baron Gottfried von Cramm trouncing Bryan ("Bitsy") Grant. The opening matches turned out just so and the one doubles match became pivotal. Paired as always with husky Gene Mako, Budge did not hit his stride until von Cramm & Henkel had won one set and run the second to 5-3. Then Budge & Mako smashed through Henkel...