Word: easterner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...League, continued playing hockey until he was 42. In 1926 Boston, New York, Detroit and Chicago, suddenly enthusiastic about professional hockey, began looking for talent to exploit the franchises they had purchased in the National Hockey League, so the Brothers Patrick sold the cream of their players to the Eastern clubs and disbanded the league. While Brother Frank became managing director of the National Hockey League and more recently coach of the Boston Bruins, Brother Lester became the most famed of all hockey managers...
...another from scratch. He had paved the way for doing so. Scouting -from the mill pond up-has long been the customary procedure in big-league hockey, but Lester Patrick four years ago brought an innovation to the sport when he started a training school for likely prospects. Because Eastern Canada has been so thoroughly scoured by scouts (75% of major-league players come from either Toronto or Ottawa), Manager Patrick opened his school in Winnipeg, where he could have the field to himself...
Captain Edward Vernon Rickenbacker was the No. 1 U. S. War Ace, is currently the hardbitten, harddriving, general manager of Eastern Air Lines. John Daniel Hertz has bagged enough businesses in his 58 years to be an ace at U. S. finance. A Chicago reporter, he founded Yellow Cab Co. in 1915, sold most of it to General Motors Corp. ten years later for $43,000,000. Currently he is a partner of Lehman Bros., potent Wall Street investment house which controls Transcontinental & Western Air. For several months Aces Hertz and Rickenbacker have been engaged in an air duel which...
Lacing the eastern seaboard like a big X, one of whose axes runs from Chicago to Miami and the other from New York to Houston, Tex., Eastern Air is the fourth biggest U. S. airline and the only major domestic one to make a sizable profit in 1937-$270,000 before income tax deductions. This makes it a choice business property, but North American Aviation found possession embarrassing because the Air Mail Act of 1934 forbids one company both to have airmail contracts and to manufacture airplanes. North American is the only U. S. concern to have gotten away with...
Since the series was inaugurated in 1905 Harvard has never once been able to capture the Eastern championship...