Word: ellsworth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Army Appropriation Bill which provides for 1938 military expenditures totalling $416,413,382, a peacetime record. Sent it to the Senate. ¶Passed bills providing appropriations of $700 each for gold medals to be presented to Actor George M. Cohan, for his Wartime pepsong Over There, and Explorer Lincoln Ellsworth for his explorations, sent them to the Senate...
Derby Week starts Wednesday night, with a parade and pageant depicting Kentucky sports, followed by dancing in the streets. Thursday night's specialty this year was to be a tennis match between Ellsworth Vines and Fred Perry at the Jefferson County Armory. Friday night festivities were the Derby Eve Ball, an all-star wrestling program, and the annual reunion banquet & mint-julep shower of Kentucky Colonels. Saturday is the Derby...
...Ellsworth S. Grant '39 is supervising the production of the cinema, while Schuyler Pardee '39 and David Agnew '39 will act as assistants. The film will be of the 16 millimeter size, and will last approximately one-half hour...
...Princess Alexandrine Louise Caroline Matilda Dagmar of Denmark, 22, niece of King Christian X; and Count Luitpold Alfred Frederic Charles zu Castell-Castell, 32, of Munich; in Copenhagen. Married. Francis Townsend Hunter, 42, oldtime U. S. Davis Cup tennist, Manhattan liquor dealer and co-promoter of the Fred Perry-Ellsworth Vines professional tennis tour; and Marjorie Franklin, 30, Manhattan dress-buyer; in Greenwich, Conn. Died, Richard Brinsley Sheridan, son of Clare Consuelo Sheridan, British sculptor and travel-writer, great-great-great-grandson of 18th Century Irish dramatist Richard Brinsley Butler Sheridan (The School for Scandal) after an appendectomy; in Algeria...
Into New York's Madison Square Garden last week trouped the biggest crowd (17,200) that has ever watched a tennis match in the U. S. The attraction was California's long, ambling Ellsworth Vines, world's ablest professional since 1933, against England's sleek, light-footed Frederick John Perry, world's ablest amateur since 1933, making his professional debut...