Word: gall
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Mainspring in the promotion of Narragansett was a onetime Rhode Island mill operator named Walter E. O'Hara, a fast-witted, hot-tempered Irishman with enterprise and gall. He and some friends, including Providence's Judge James E. Dooley, onetime president of the Canadian-American Hockey League, bought the 130 acres on which the track is built from an oldtime Woonsocket saloonkeeper named John F. Letendre for $150,000. Promoter O'Hara gets $75,000 a year as managing director of the track, holds 142,000 of the 350,000 shares of common stock which...
Died. John A. Pilgard, 69, merchant and Democratic Mayor-elect of Hartford, Conn., after six weeks' illness of abscessed teeth and a gall bladder ailment; in Hartford. Hospitalized early in October, he was elected by an unprecedented plurality, would have been inaugurated...
...roads. The city's first fire department; how he founded the circulating library, a new kind of stove, and the American Philosophical Society. His missions to England were exceedingly fruitful; his mistress in France one of the most beautiful women of the era; his gout and his gall stones and a fall down the stairs led to his death. Then again there was the Saturday Evening Post...
...loans while money experts were raising their eyebrows at the company's shaky capital structure. Last March when Treasurer Hutchinson raised $25,000.000 at the phenomenally low interest rate of 2.65%, Jackson Eli Reynolds of Manhattan's First National Bank, having heard that Mr. Hutchinson's gall bladder had been removed, was said to have remarked: "All I can say is that they didn...
...York State contains 700 known typhoid carriers. Few of them have "submitted to the operation for the removal of gall bladder, usually an effective procedure for ridding the system of typhoid germs. Hoping to persuade more to undergo cholecystectomy. Dr. Thomas Parran Jr., State Health Commissioner, last week announced that 91 New York typhoid carriers have had their gall bladders out during the past 15 years, and hence may live as they please, without official surveillance...