Word: layton
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Kansas, Wheat Farming Co. of Hays is the largest corporate producer. Last year it worked 25,000 acres. This year it harvested 32,500 acres. William Layton of Salina and Simon Fishman of Greeley County are tied as the State's biggest individual wheat producers. Each has 10,000 acres...
...swallowed its last great Liberal competitor, the even huger Daily Chronicle (circulation: 1,000,000), onetime organ of David Lloyd George, onetime employer of Reporters James Ramsay MacDonald and Philip Gibbs. Appeared the Daily News & Chronicle, to be administered by five trustees: Lord Cowdray, Henry Tylor Cadbury, Walter Thomas Layton, B. H. Binder, J. C. Akerman...
Players who have done well at pool or straight billiards often take up three-cushion, find it the most satisfying because it is the hardest. Curly-haired, florid Johnny Layton was the best pocket billiard player in the world before he decided that knocking balls into pockets was dull compared to pure cueing. When he won his first championship he went home to Sedalia, Mo., where he had become proficient during long sleepy days when, if you were not playing pool at the smoke house, there was nothing to do but count the cars on Ohio Street, or go down...
Before the national three-cushion championship ended in Manhattan last week, Layton had taken a beating from August Kieckhefer. If anyone, talking to Kieckhefer face to face, looks at his left eye, he has a feeling that Kieckhefer is interested in something else. To overcome the behavior of his eye, he shoots left-handed so that he can sight with his right eye. He beat Layton 50 to 38 in 58 innings, but three-cushion championships are decided by total number of games won and lost, and it was Layton and not Kieckhefer who played off in the finals against...