Word: firming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...huge, rawboned, grim man is Warden Richard Elias Davis of the Utah State Prison. With a firm hand he rules the convicts confined in that strong jail, made doubly strong by the high mountains back of Salt Lake City. Last week Warden Davis heard a bomb go off. Looking out from his office he saw the prison yard suddenly seething with a bloody, vicious riot. A dozen convicts had captured Deputy Warden Giles. Three hundred others were milling in the yard armed with clubs and rocks. Some had guns. Louis Deathridge, a Missouri desperado, ran to the wall with...
Died. James Walter Spalding, 75, co-founder in 1876 with his brother, the late Albert G. Spalding, then a famed baseball pitcher, of the sporting goods firm of A. G. Spalding & Bros.; its board chairman and onetime president; father of Violinist Albert Spalding and Vice President H. Boardman Spalding of the Spalding company; of heart disease; at Monmouth Beach, N. J. For 30 years he spent his winters in Florence, Italy, where he guaranteed the symphony orchestra. Last year he was awarded the cross of St. Maurice & St. Lazarus by the Italian Government. In 1905 he lost his left...
When Burbank died, by his direction his entire business was taken over by Stark Brothers. Last fortnight it was announced that they had sold the seed portion of the estate to the Burpee firm, keeping for themselves the nursery activities. The work will continue at Burbank's Santa Rosa gardens. Living there and watching will be Luther Burbank's widow. The notes he kept scrupulously, unlike many scientists, she has guarded scrupulously, unlike many widows. The notes, the seeds, the bulbs she is turning over to David Burpee...
...Atlee Burpee who founded the Burpee firm was a cousin of the California plant wizard. In Burbank's lifetime the Burpees bought seed from the little firm Burbank maintained to help finance his experiments. W. Atlee Burpee began his business in 1878. It gained prestige by introducing the sweet pea from England and more prestige by developing new varieties which were shipped back to England. The present Burpee, David, a man of medium height and thinning hair, became president of the company in 1915 after the death of his father. Born in Philadelphia in 1893, he attended Cornell's agricultural...
...aviator and Los Angeles banker, confirmed re ports of his resignation as board chairman of Bank of America National Trust 6 Savings Association, subsidiary of Transamerica Corp. Sailing W . Baruch, father, and Donald Edward Baruch, son, filed with the New York Stock Exchange a proposal to dis solve the firm of Sailing W. Baruch...