Word: delavan
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney's four-year-old racehorse Equipoise, who was retired early last season with a blind quarter crack: the Delavan Handicap at Arlington Park, defeating Jamestown, who had beaten him twice in 1930, by three lengths. Carrying top-weight of 128 lb., Equipoise covered the mile in 1 :34 2/5, or 3/5 sec. better than the world record for an oval track set by Jack High under 110 lb. at Belmont Park...
...Plummer Whitbeck, of Bronxville, New York. For vice-president, Edwin Ide Brainard, of Arlington; Richard Woolen Emory, of Baltimore, Maryland; Thomas Ferguson Locke, of Boston; Arthur Stanwood Pier, Jr., of Concord, New Hampshire; David Daniel Scan-nel, Jr., of Jamaica Plain. For Secretary-treasurer, Donald Armstrong, of West Roxbury; Delavan Carlos Clos, of New York, New York: Lee Perot Howard, of Larchmont, New York...
...directors of Otis Elevator Co., elected last week, were Charles Hayden of Hayden, Stone & Co. and Curtiss A. Sanford, Otis treasurer. The position of chairman, previously filled by the late William Delavan Baldwin, has been dispensed with...
...that Church. It was Anthony Nicholas Brady, father of Nicholas Frederic, who founded the Brady fortune, at one time among the greatest in the U. S. Anthony, born in Lille, France, went to Troy, N. Y., in 1857, worked first in the barber shop at Albany's old Delavan House. At 19 he started a tea store, soon opened branches. His first utility interest was acquiring stock in Albany Gas Light Co. A genius for consolidation, in comparatively short time he acquired control of Manhattan utility and traction companies. In 1887 he reorganized Manhattan's elevated railway...