Word: hommedieu
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ball club again. His offer for the New York Giants was refused. Someone suggested that he could buy the down-at-the-heels New York Yankees, weak sister of the American League, for $450,000. He did-in 1915, with a rich contractor, Tillinghast L'Hommedieu Huston, as partner. For the next five years the two optimists shopped for a player who could produce home runs, finally found him in Pitcher Babe Ruth, whom they bought from the Boston...
Died. Col. Tillinghast l'Hommedieu Huston, 71, formerly co-owner (with Col. Jacob Ruppert) of the New York Yankees baseball club; of heart disease; in Brunswick, Ga. In 1923 he sold his stock in the club to Col. Ruppert...
Unlimited class: L'Hommedieu of Springfield won by decision over Edward F. Sullivan...
...defeated Howland B. Stoddard '36, referee's defeated Donald V. McGranahan '35, fall, 8.44; 145-pound class: Brown (C) defeated Edward T. Farlay '36, fall, 6.52; 155-pound class: Klinger (C) defeated Robert D. Reed '36, referee's decision; 165-pound class: Richard W. Emory '35 defeated L'hommedieu (C) fall, 3.21, (overtime); 175-pound class: Richard G. Ames '34 defeated King (C) referee's decision; Unlimited class: Gridley Barrows '34 defeated Davenport (C) referee's decision...
...line of Democrats. One of his five brothers, Ewin, is now the "lame duck" chairman of the House Merchant Marina, Radio & Fisheries committee. In 1902 Norman Davis went to Cuba, where in 15 years he made his fortune in banking, construction, dredging. His Havana partner was Tillinghast I'Hommedieu Huston, onetime Colonel in the Army Engineers, onetime part-owner of the New York Yankees...