Word: irishman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...quarter of a century British racing crowds have shouted themselves hoarse, exulted, wept, torn handkerchiefs and smashed toppers for a bandy-legged, wizened little Irishman who always responded to an imploring "Come on, Steve!" Last week in London, Steve Donoghue, still going strong at 52, announced that this, his 31st year as a jockey, would be his last...
...brother of Boston Traveler's popular Columnist Neal O'Hara, Walter O'Hara is a quick-witted Irishman, onetime Rhode Island mill operator, who suddenly appeared on the State political scene when the Legislature legalized pari-mutuel horserace gambling in 1934. Promoter O'Hara quickly organized Narragansett Racing Association with the help of friends, bought 130 acres from an oldtime Woonsocket saloonkeeper for $150,000, built a track in seven weeks and began running profitable races before the paint was dry on the grandstand. Taking 62% of all bets made, besides gate receipts and concessions, Narragansett...
...facts about Andrew Mellon, other than his fortune, were exceedingly simple. Born at Pittsburgh in 1855, he was the son of a hard-headed Tyrone County Scotch-Irishman who -"ounded the banking house of T. Mellon & Sons. At 18, Andrew quit Western University of Pennsylvania to start a lumber business with his 15-year-old brother, Dick. When the lumber business succeeded, first Andrew and then Brother Richard joined the bank, which they built into the $380,000,000 Mellon National Bank. In the next 40-some years, Andrew Mellon multiplied the Mellon capital...
...Irishman aged only 28, the 4th Marquess of Dufferin & Ava, had charge of His Majesty's Government's bill in the House of Lords as Undersecretary for Colonies, was on trial last week as a coming Conservative statesman of possibly bright future...
...York's O'Day is a tall, blue-eyed Episcopal socialite. Daughter of a wealthy Georgia planter, she studied art eight years in Europe, there met the Irishman she subsequently married, the late Daniel O'Day, an official of Standard Oil of New Jersey. After his death in 1916 Mrs. O'Day took up social work and politics and, with her close friend Anna Eleanor Roosevelt, helped organize New York women for the Democracy. She participates in many of Mrs. Roosevelt's pet projects, is a co-vice president of her Val-Kill Furniture shop...