Word: howards
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that Philadelphia's Contractor-Boss Matthew H. McCloskey and Secretary of State David Lawrence in 1935 obtained a $20,000 bribe for supporting legislation favorable to Pennsylvania brewers. Although Mr. Margiotti solemnly declared that the voters should not think for a moment that his old friend Governor George Howard Earle III had anything to do with the matter, the Governor could hardly overlook the fact that the accused were his principal backers for the U. S. Senatorial nomination. Whereupon he summoned the accuser to the brownstone executive mansion in Harrisburg, ordered Mr. Margiotti to shortcut his projected grand jury...
...training for the past 27 months), the small (15.2 hands), broad-backed bay colt, familiarly known as The Biscuit, is a seasoned tourist as well. Last week's trip was the fourth time he had crossed the continent since his owner, San Francisco Automan Charles S. Howard, bought him two years ago at Saratoga from the late Ogden Mills...
...Overland Limited, to which his car was attached. Accompanied by his favorite pet, a nine-year-old pony named Pumpkin, and his trainer, laconic Tom Smith, who slept on a home-sized bed next to him, Seabiscuit occupied one third of the 80-foot horse car* Owner Howard had chartered (for $1,500) for the trip. He watched the scenery through his car windows, walked around for exercise, was carefully fed only water and hay lest he get trainsick. Unlike most thoroughbreds, who are so nervous that they sleep standing up, Seabiscuit relaxed on the hay-covered floor and slept...
...assembled last week to play for the Vanderbilt Cup, blue ribbon U. S. championship for four-man teams. After 5 days of qualifying rounds and "knockout" elimination matches, the field of 28 teams narrowed down to two. Finalists were the defending champions, the Four Aces (Oswald Jacoby, David Burnstine, Howard Schenken, Merwin Maier and alternate Sherman Stearns), and a quartet of Donor Harold Vanderbilt's old teammates, headed by Baron Waldemar von Zedtwitz. At the end of the 72-deal final, the Four Aces won the Cup for the fourth time in the past five years. But they came...
...market price on petroleum products at the expense of the public. A Senate subcommittee is now considering a bill introduced by Senator Guy M. Gillette of Iowa to divorce oil production and sale much as the New Deal divorced banking and underwriting in 1933. Last week President J. Howard Pew of Sun Oil Co. went to Washington to protest. Denying that the present setup was monopolistic or unjust, he declared: "I resent such an indictment. There's nothing I consider more un-American and unsportsmanlike than the fixing of prices." ¶ Pressed its antimonopoly trial of vast Aluminum...