Word: douglases
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Son of a saloonkeeper who became a preacher after his saloon, ''Old 410" (No. 410 East Douglas Street, Wichita), was smashed by Carrie Nation on one of her first rampages, Gerald Winrod was obscure until 1935 when, after a trip to Germany, he blossomed out as proprietor of...
But all night long no one on North America saw tail or strut of Douglas Corrigan. Then, some 27 hours later, an American plane was spotted streaking past Belfast like a Sinn Feiner ducking the Black and Tans. It was Corrigan, all right, and an hour later he fluttered down...
¶ Began an investigation of the investment policies of insurance companies. By the Securities Act of 1933, new security issues must be registered with SEC before sale unless the entire issue is to be sold to one buyer. With their huge cash resources, insurance companies habitually buy entire issues. Investment...
Born. To Dorothy Round Little, last year's Wimbledon tennis champion, six-time member of the Wightman Cup team; and Dr. Douglas Little; their first child; a boy; in Dudley, England. Because she was about to become a mother England's No. 1 woman player did not play...
In England, many a highbrow writer turns out mystery stories as a side line. Example: Economist George Douglas Howard Cole, who has collaborated with his wife on a successful half dozen. Poet Lewis' mysteries, however, are noteworthy because he meets professional mystery writers on their own ground with only...