Word: knight
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...returned to New York to bury his wife, met a charming girl who called herself, somewhat interchangeably, Beula Benton Edmondson (her father was a Scotsman descended from a Norman knight who crossed the Channel with William the Conqueror), or Keetaw Kelantucky Sequoan (her mother was a Cherokee descended from Chief Sequoyah who invented the Cherokee alphabet). After a month's courtship he married her. Despite elaborate precautions to keep the time and place of the wedding secret, enthusiastic Tammany crowds jammed the streets for blocks. Dozens of New York's photographers turned out. To avoid their curiosity, Boss...
...Leaders, youths between 20 and 28 who have passed four rigorous physical examinations, are pure Aryans, will devote 60% of their time to instruction in sports, must all become competent aviators before graduating from the four-year course. Afterward they will bear the title Junker, roughly equivalent to "Knight," will go from their Ordensburg to become municipal, state or party officials, with a few given executive positions in German business. Each Leader is encouraged to marry at once and his wife and children if any are supported by the State while he continues training, up each morning at the Ordensburg...
...intervening span the Depression has left its mark. Moses L. Annenberg's aggressive Tribune has invaded Miami and rugged, friendly Herald Publisher Frank Barker Shutts has turned 66. Nevertheless Herald money-making continued in sufficient measure so that Akron, Ohio Beacon-Journal Publisher John Shively Knight was politely rebuffed in July when he asked if the Herald was for sale...
Publisher Knight persisted in his effort to buy the Herald because he likes Miami and needs something more absorbing than golf to keep him busy during his winters there. Publisher Shutts likes Pittsfield, Mass., where he has a summer home. Last week, returning to Miami from Pittsfield, he admitted he needed a respite, concluded a $2,500,000 deal with Ohio's Knight whereby Publisher Shutts retains a minority of Herald preferred stock, relinquishes control to Publisher Knight & associates...
Without Colonel Johnson, the opening parade up Broadway was led last week by the new impresarios: his rangy, longtime arena director, Everett Colburn, and boyish Harry Knight, a onetime bronco-rider and son-in-law of Cowboy Tom Mix. A third, also in the parade, was an Arizona cattleman named Mark Clemens, who had put up the cash to buy Promoter Johnson's string of broncos, steers and wild cows, and to send "Gorilla" Mike Hastings scouring the West for more. Scout Hastings was visibly pleased last week with one of his most celebrated finds, a bucking horse named...