Word: howards
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...great man speaking brilliantly and earnestly, the tolling of a thousand bells, a broken window and a flooded bathroom, a Goodman rhapsody and a Schubert symphony. Things they wrote home about--marks, athletics, money, and evasions. And things they didn't---applause that pleaded for more at the Old Howard, the overdue library book, the one waitress who brought boiled eggs that tasted homey, the girl picked up unexpectedly at the House dance, the unfortunate encounter with the Yard...
...Vanderbilt, 25, "most eligible bachelor in the U. S.." owner of Sagamore Farm and famed handicap horse Discovery, co-heir with his brother George to the $20,000,000 fortune of the late Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt; to Manuela ("Molly") 'Hudson, 26. California cousin-by-marriage of Charles S. Howard, owner of Seabiscuit; in Sands Point, L. I. Reported the New York World-Telegram: "Some cried, but Mrs. Margaret Emerson, Mr. Vanderbilt's mother, who has been married four times, was cheerful...
...olds and up), and a special $50,000 race between Herbert M. Woolf's Lawrin, Kentucky Derby winner, and William du Pont's Dauber, Preakness winner, for the "three-year-old championship" of the year. Missing from Hollywood Park's stalls last week were Charles S. Howard's Seabiscuit and Maxwell Howard's Stagehand, the two outstanding California performers last winter, who were both going to Suffolk Downs instead for next fortnight's $50,000 Massachusetts Handicap...
...Manhattan, the Scripps-Howard World-Telegram under contract with the New York Guild since April 1937, signed a new one-year agreement covering 550 employes and including for the first time all commercial department employes...
...estimated that by fall, last year's surplus will total 300,000,000 bu., 30% above normal. This fact plus prospects of an average 1938 crop last week dropped futures prices on the Chicago Exchange to 57? a bu., 60? below last year, and prompted Administrator Howard Ross Tolley to predict that a Federal corn loan will be necessary this fall...