Word: daniels
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...year-old-the bones of Irish horses develop early, thanks to limestone in their native soil-Shannon Power (named after a power-house on the Shannon river) won the Davis Cup at Toronto last year, starred in other international contests. His rider, small curly-haired Captain Daniel J. Corry of the Irish Free State Army, takes special pride in his own jumping pony. First Attempt, a little grey gelding who caught cold in Boston last month, spent most of last week coughing and munching apples in his stall...
...Toole Jr. ¶ Into G. 0. P. headquarters in Manhattan switched a well-dressed woman who loudly exclaimed: "I'm for Hoover! I'm for him because he got us into this mess and I think he ought to be made to get us out." ¶ Daniel Willard. president of Baltimore & Ohio: "I expect to vote for President Hoover because I believe it's better for the country." ¶ To Atlantic City went Christian ("Red" ) Cagle, famed Army halfback, to address a Republican rally at the Elks Club. His audience consisted of two Elks and a newshawk...
...Union College (Schenectady, N. Y.); Author Stephen Vincent Benét, by $500 first prize in the O. Henry Memorial Prize for a story, "An End to Dreams''; Social Worker Jane Addams (Chicago's Hull House), by an LL. D. from Swarthmore College; Copper Man Daniel Cowan Jackling, by the John Fritz Gold Medal (top engineering award) for making 2% copper ore profitable; Film Actress Greta Garbo, by an open letter asking that Sweden's King Gustaf give her a gold medal as one of Sweden's "foremost ambassadors...
...Daniel O'Connell (1775-1847), called "the Liberator" of Catholic Ireland, was a stalwart debater in the British House of Commons, a fine upstanding leader of the poor and oppressed Irish. After his death the name O'Connell was one for any Roman Catholic to revere. Would not an investment banking house named Daniel O'Connell & Co. sound safe? It did until this year...
...Daniel O'Connell, at No. 580 Fifth Avenue in Manhattan, offered 10% on investments, 4% interest on all securities deposited as collateral. Many a U. S. Catholic priest, college and diocese did business with him. There began to seem something wrong last March, when the diocese of Buffalo received no reply to letters asking that certain bonds be sold or returned. Police investigation revealed that Banker O'Connell was missing. Discovered in California, he was indicted for grand larceny, accused of absconding with $500,000. Pleading guilty to one count, he was freed under $25,000 bail, with...