Word: golf
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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From profitable Post Office contracts, pneumatic tubes prospered until the War. Then Postmaster General Albert Sidney Burleson, President Wilson's man-Farley for eight years, persuaded his chief over a golf game to veto the $1,000,000 annual appropriation for ''letters shot through pipes"-Republican pipes. Not until 1922 during the Harding administration were Manhattan's tubes reopened...
...Spanish-American War veteran, held a pastorate in Northfield, Vt. for five years, did some field work among quarry workers before becoming an Americanization teacher for Mexicans, a homesteader in Oregon and, in 1924, returning to the historical church in Kansas where he shocked people by sermonizing in a golf club to men who would not go to church...
Lieutenant Colonel John Theodore Cuthbert Moore-Brabazon is a distinguished British authority on aeronautics, ''First Englishman to Fly in England," past president of the Royal Aeronautical Society. In his Who's Who entry, Colonel Moore-Brabazon lists his recreations as "golf, tobogganing, yachting." Last week he was engaged in another kind of recreation which took the form of a very pleasant altercation-not only typically British but typical of the well-ballasted wit of the man of science anywhere-with Professor Edward Neville da Costa Andrade, F. R. S.. F. Inst. P., D. Sc., Quain professor...
...maxim of big Standard Oil Co. of California. Last month Standard's famed President Kenneth Raleigh Kingsbury died in Panama. Last week Standard's directors met briefly, chose as Standard's fourth president a man who joined the company in 1902 as a stenographer-bald, golf-loving William H. Berg, 55. Standard's expert on foreign oil production, President Berg is credited with developing the Bahrein Island oil fields in the Persian Gulf. This week down the ways at Chester, Pa. will slide a new Standard Oil tanker. Name: William H. Berg...
...each night reads himself to sleep with Punch, a detective story or the encyclopedia. An exceedingly rapid reader, he has read through both the Britannica and the Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences. He is colorblind, cannot drive a car. Once, walking with his brother in Boston, he saw a golf club in a store window. They bought it, went home and looked up golf in the encyclopedia, then experimented in the back yard with the one club, a ball and two tomato cans...