Word: gordon
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Businessman Arnold Gushing Dickinson, president of the company, did sell it last week-to United Aircraft & Transport Corp. President Gordon Sohn Rentschler of Manhattan's National City Bank and his brother, President Frederick B. Rentschler of United Aircraft & Transport, had outbid Mr. Keys and others. The price was about $2,500,000 in United stock...
...winning the pennant, probably lost it by starting the season with oldsters Ty Cobb, Tris Speaker and Eddie Collins in his lineup.† About the middle of the season, Manager Mack put in youngsters, made up much lost ground. This year he has had his youngsters-notably Jimmy Foxx, Gordon Cochrane, Al Simmons-in action all year, and with superlative pitching from Pitchers Grove and Walberg, and good pitching from Pitchers Earnshaw and Quinn (Quinn is another relic of spitball days) he is far and apparently safely in the lead. The New York Club, winner...
...conservative. Said Bishop Furse when he saw Bishop Barnes: ". . . He claims liberty for himself and others in freedom of belief and refuses to allow that freedom of belief to be expressed in certain ways by us who, he says, made concessions to religious barbarisms." Interjected the Most Rev. Cosmo Gordon Lang, Archbishop of Canterbury: 'The Bishop of Birmingham so frequently uses language which is of the vehement kind that he must not be surprised if any of the brethren wish to call attention to its implications." Continued Bishop Furse: ". . . He is hurting the feelings ... of thousands of people throughout...
...most Reverend Cosmo Gordon Lang, Archbishop of Canterbury, in gold embroidered cape, croisier in hand, stood before the altar of Westminster Abbey. Heavy drums of the guards brigade rolled thunderously. Cried the Archbishop...
...Bide Dudley, chatty theatre editor of the New York Evening World, the play is redundant, filled with burdensome explanations of obvious situations. The predicament of Husband Carter is invested with little or no dramatic dignity. Tripping delicately between silliness and indelicacy, as if performing an egg dance, Richard Gordon gives a deft, sincere but inevitably useless performance as Husband Carter...