Word: davenports
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Except for the triumph of the Eliot crew at New Haven, Saturday was a thoroughly Blue day for Harvard House teams as Kirkland lost to Davenport, Yale inter-College champion, in tennis and baseball, and the Adams golfers were trimmed by Berkeley...
...game for the Deacons, allowing only four infield hits and fanning 15, but support was poor. His teammates could only collect three hits, two of them by Mary Ever, second sacker, and the Deacons boggled woefully in the field for a total of nine costly errors to give Davenport a 7 to 3 victory...
Champions in the House leagues will meet the winning college teams at Yale this Saturday. Kirkland will send a tennis team to Yale to play a match with Davenport, while on their home diamond Deacon baseballers meet the winning Davenport nine. The Eliot crew rows against Jonathan Edwards over a mile course at New Haven, while the Bellboy linksmen take on Berkley here...
...cars met the State's Junior Senator Pepper, escorted him with honking horns to St. Cloud's city limits where he was met by the town's band and drum corps. From St. Cloud, the motorcade, swollen to 250, followed the Senator around Polk County through Davenport, Haines City, Auburndale and Winter Haven to Bartow where Claude Pepper climaxed a typical day by announcing to a crowd of 2,000 that he would vote for the Townsend plan even if the President vetoed...
...Transamerica Corp., bank holding company now being renovated as an investment trust, controls Occidental Life Insurance Co. of Los Angeles. In June 1936 at a court receiver's sale Occidental bought Federal Reserve Life Insurance Co. of Kansas City and last year acquired Guaranty Life Insurance Co. of Davenport, Iowa. Last month Occidental started negotiating with Sears, Roebuck & Co. for the purchase of Hercules Life Insurance Co. of Chicago (TIME, April 4). Last week this deal was called off. Reason given by President Carl L. Odell of Hercules: "Public opinion seems to be against removal of assets...