Word: holder
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...consider Bobby Jones to be the greatest golfer that ever lived. There is no shot on the course he cannot, or rather could not, play to perfection. Whether he will ever be able to attain that peak again remains to be seen. George Dunlap, formerly of Princeton, and present holder of the National Amateur title, and Johnny Goodman, National Open Champion, are the best of the younger group of golfers...
With a cigaret holder between his smiling lips, President Roosevelt last week welcomed nearly 200 correspondents who pack-jammed his White House office to hear him announce after 16 long years U. S. recognition of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics...
...partner in Manhattan's Todhunter school for girls. Profits go back into the business, which is operated by her boon companion, Marion Dickerman. With her other inseparable friend. Nancy Cook, a tousle headed. unfeminine. effective woman who often dresses mannishly and smokes cigarets in a holder at the side of her mouth. Mrs. Roosevelt operates Val-Kill shops, an enterprise which manufactures antique reproductions at Hyde Park. This is a non-profit concern. In the past five years Mrs. Roosevelt has picked up some $25,000 from endorsements, radio talks and writing. The Roosevelts maintain a summer place...
...preventing the foreclosure of farm mortgages, the government has wasted effort. For there is no landed aristocracy in America desirous of accumulating large tracts of workable property. When a mortgage holder forecloses on a farm, he often sells it back to its former owner for loss than the amount of the mortgage...
...Fellowship carries an annual stipend of $1300, and its holder must study at the American School of Classical Studies at Athens, devoting himself or herself to the study of some special subject in the field of Greek literature, history, art, archaeology, or topography...