Word: hussey
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Rowland Hussey Macy, Nantucket Quaker, Gold Rush Forty-Niner, whaling captain and grocery store owner, founded Macy's in 1858. The original Macy store (14th St. and Sixth Avenue) embodied present Macy policies of a cash business and "odd" prices (9¢ and 18¢ rather than 10¢ and 20¢). In 1874 Lazarus Straus, who had come to the U. S. as a refugee after the German revolution of 1848, leased part of Macy's basement and opened a crockery store. Captain Macy died in 1877, and until 1888 junior partners carried on the business. In 1888 control passed to Nathan...
...shot putters, hammer throwers, wrestlers, oarsmen, swimmers, divers, gymnasts, fencers, yachtsmen, horsemen, cyclists, boxers, officials, etc., etc., boarded the Roosevelt, planned to live aboard the liner until its return August 19. With the U. S. Olympic team went three athletes, not team members, crossing as stowaways. Famed Sprinter Frank Hussey hid in a bathtub, was removed to the brig, ransomed by friends on board...
...yard dash--7 1-10 sec. Harold Lever, Pennslyvania, March 3, 1923; F. V. Hussey, Boston College, March...
...secured while an undergraduate at the University, when he won both the 40 and 50 yard dashes. The two men who have threatened his title time and again were on hand last night to try once more for the crown as champion short distance sprinter. The runners are Frank Hussey, former Boston College track star, who has been second in most of his races with Miller. The other is a new runner in the field, Carl Wyldermuth of Georgetown University. In the 40 yard dash Hussey was second, Ernest Morrill of Boston University was third, and Watkins was fourth...
Last year's Millrose meet was a triumph for Harvard when A. H. Miller '27, premier sprinter of the Crimson squad, flashed home in front of a strong field in the 50-yeard dash. Frank Hussey, of Boston College, Robert McAllister, "the Flying Cop", and Morrill of Boston University took Miller's dust in this race...