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Word: leonarde (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...order to win the match, Coach Frank Vaughan of the local House League winner substituted his breast strokers for the relay men originally entered in the 100-yard free style. With the score knotted at 27 all William Iyler, William Cann, George Leonard, and Robert Murphy then nosed out the Yale relay combination...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Eliot House Mermen Duck Yale's Trumbull College 35-27; Fencing, Track, Polo Teams Do Poorly in Weekend Frays | 3/8/1937 | See Source »

...When Leonard Asbury Busby, Chicago lawyer and tractionman, died in 1930, he left an estate of $1,635,000 and debts to banks and brokerage houses of nearly $1,000,000. Named executor was the trust affiliate of Chicago's big First National Bank, of which his good friend the late Melvin Alvah ("Mel") Traylor was president. Busby's will set up a trust for his widow and two children, gave the executor full power to sell any property "upon such terms as ... may seem desirable." President Traylor, who assumed direct supervision of the estate, was thus supposedly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: Busby Victory | 2/22/1937 | See Source »

Selector for Book Digest is Donald Leonard Gordon, long a consulting expert to the book trade. Mr. Black's book career began in 1923 when he was salesman for a company publishing a one-volume Shakespeare. Launching out for himself on a $500 stake, Bookseller Black became Publisher Black with a one-volume Shakespeare of his own. Since then, Publisher Black has issued over 70 "classics," spent upwards of $1,000,000 advertising them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Books in Brief | 2/1/1937 | See Source »

Shankar plans a short U. S. tour this season, a long one in 1938. After that he hopes to open an All-India Centre of Hindu Arts in Benares, backed by rich connoisseurs like Mrs. Leonard Elmhirst...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Brown Dancers | 1/25/1937 | See Source »

...Tommy Dorsey. A pleasantly danceable piece in the customary Dorsey manner, but it seems a shame to waste this good band on such pop tunes. They need something to cut loose on. The reverse, Head Over Heels In Love***, is better, having Edythe Wright vocalizing in place of Jack Leonard. After she finishes, Max Kaminsky (trumpet) and Bud Freeman (tenor sax) add a few topid bars...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Platter Chatter | 1/11/1937 | See Source »

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