Word: holders
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...This Dewey person's "blue-ribbon" jury: How does a "blue-ribbon" jury fit into the American picture? To use the old Stanford phrase "it looks fishy and so smells." Who is the donor of the ribbon? And who made him the holder of the ribbons...
...Fastest man has ever traveled is 440 m.p.h., a speed attained in the air by Italian Francesco Agello in 1934. Speed record on water is 129 m.p.h., set last September by Britain's Sir Malcolm Campbell, holder of the land speed record (301 m.p.h.) before Captain Eyston...
Sportsman Flier Howard Hughes has piled up more outstanding aviation records than any professional. Once holder of the world landplane speed record, he has set marks round-the-world, from New York to Paris, Miami to New York, Chicago to Los Angeles, U. S. coast-to-coast. Last week, with no more to urge him on than a seven-mile tail wind and the desire to try out a new type of oxygen mask, Flier Hughes with three companions took off from Glendale, Calif, in the same 7 ½-ton Lockheed 14-II transport plane that carried him around...
...Tightened rules for proxies. On the theory that security holders are entitled to know all essential information when a proxy is requested, SEC revised its 1935 rules to make proxies include such facts as full identity of the soliciting persons, nature of the matters to be voted on, expenses of the solicitation, powers and rights of dissenting groups. Most important, the new rules, which go into effect October 1, provide space for negative as well as positive choice on the part of the security holder...
Having punched the welterweight (147 Ib. maximum) crown off Barney Ross's head, Henry Armstrong, already holder of the featherweight (126 Ib. maximum) title, became the first fisticuffer in the long annals of pugilism to wear both crowns at the same time...