Word: holman
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Felts Field, Spokane, for the winners. To while away time, Army flyers stunted over the field. Specks appeared in the eastern sky. The winner of the Class B race was C. W. Meyers of Detroit, flying a Waco plane. Twelve minutes ahead of Flyer Meyers had landed C. W. Holman of St. Paul, flying a Wright-motored Laird biplane. He was winner in the Class A race for larger planes over a similar course but, with fewer stops, had flown in two days instead of three. Mr. Holman's prize was $10,000. Fifteen planes started. Richard...
...Montclair Lamprecht defeated Jack Westland of Washington University 9-7 by means of three consecutive 34's. That same hot day saw another title retained at Merion. Edward G. Chandler of the University of California captured the intercollegiate tennis crown for the second consecutive year by defeating Cranston Holman of Leland Stanford University...
Charles W. Holman has written in the current "World's Work" a short survey of proposed farm legislation, with the all-embracing title "What the Corn Belt Demands". It demands an end to the sale of government lands, a Federal organization for dumping on Europe surplus produce, a tariff on farm produce to put agriculture on a parity with manufacture, further extension of the Farm Loan system, and a Federal agency to store surplus and superintend cooperative marketing;--any or all of these restoratives American agriculture demands...
Married. Parker Waite Silzer, son of Governor George S. Silzer of New Jersey, to Miss Eunice Wilson Holman, of Plainfield, N. J.; at Plainfield...
...Chicago. Cranston Holman of San Francisco devoted 50 vigorous minutes to winning the National Junior Tennis Championship from Harris Coggeshall of Des Moines (who had previously defeated "Sandy" Wiener, a protege of Champion Tilden), 6-2, 6-1, 6-2. Frank Shields of Manhattan, defeated Walter Thomas (another Tilden prottege) to take the boys' championship, 2-6, 6-0, 6-3. Shields and Thomas then paired together to win the doubles title of their division. Holman was not so fortunate. He and his partner, one Pare, relied on individual brilliance to beat the seasoned teamwork of Henry L. Johnson...