Word: greve
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...record winning time last year, but fast enough to take the $9,000 first-prize money. A wiry garage mechanic and veteran racer who designs his own planes, 29-year-old Rudy Kling lives in Lemont, Ill., had already walked off with the $4,500 first prize in the Greve Trophy race. Grinned he: "I just gunned her for all she could...
...Paris flight in 1927, Detroyat is France's best stunt flyer, has twice almost killed himself in crashes. Last week, flying a tiny blue Caudron-Renault in which he set the world's onetime land-plane speed record of 312 m.p.h., he walked off with the preliminary Greve Trophy Race. This victory made Detroyat the overwhelming favorite, though no foreign flyer hadwever i won the Thompson Trophy before. This thought did not bother the burly Frenchman. Without the slightest trouble, he drummed into the lead, won the $9,500 first-prize money with a new world...
...forbidden its valuable "Benny" Howard to fly in any of the hazardous pylon races. Still, the Colonel found some consolation in the thought of beating Mister Mulligan, which was entered under the skillful guidance of little Harold Neumann of Moline, Ill., who had already walked off with the rich Greve Trophy in Designer Howard's atom-small White Mike. The Labor Day crowd of 80,000 was overwhelmingly behind the gaudy Turner and the same golden plane in which he had lost the Bendix Race...
...removing dead bugs from street lamps and who was not above inspecting ash pits when he reached the top (see cut), was still a major executive without an executive post when he went on Katy's board of directors last year. With him went William Marcus Greve, onetime president of New York Investors, Inc., now in receivership, who is under indictment for using the mails to defraud. Arthur Atwood Ballantine, President Hoover's able Undersecretary of the Treasury, was elected a director of New York Life Insurance Co. Harvard-graduated, an expert on taxation, he remained...
That night, despite a fever of 104, Mr. Ringling was put in a wheelchair and brought to another room. Over the protest of his nurse he signed papers which gave most of his assets to New York Investors. Later he learned that swift Mr. Greve had formed a voting trust to hold the Ringling stocks and manage the circuses, another trust to hold some of the Titians, Rembrandts, Hals, Rubens from his famed collection in Sarasota, Fla. Mr. Ringling was left with nothing. But he was one of the five voting trustees, and as soon as he could...