Word: leonards
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cinema trade paper last week reported that United States Steel Corp. had loaned $2,000,000 to Tiffany Productions, Inc. (features). Commentators sought in vain for an explanation of this fantastic story. The only link between the two companies is remote: Leonard A. Young, president of Tiffany, is also president of steel-buying L. A. Young Spring & Wire Corp...
...protest against U. S. speed-skating rules by Japanese, Norwegians, Finns and Swedes, and counter protests by U. S. skaters when they were compelled to recon-test preliminary heats, Irving Jaffee won the 10,000-meter race. Young Emile St. Goddard, of Le Pas. Manitoba, out-mushed old Leonard Seppala and eleven other drivers in the exhibition 25-mi. dog sled race. Point standing of the Olympic hockey teams after each had played three of its eight games was: Canada, 6; U. S., 4; Germany, 2; Poland...
...Centre Fielder John Leonard ("Pepper") Martin of the St. Louis Cardinals; for his performance in the 1931 World Series against the Philadelphia Athletics: an Associated Press poll of experts on "the outstanding individual achievement in sports." Second was U. S. Tennis Champion Ellsworth Vines. ¶Primo Camera, gargantuan Italian pugilist: a judgment for $63,017 against his midget Anglo-French manager, Leon See; for moneys which Camera had earned in what most U. S. experts considered fraudulent boxing exhibitions and which, according to Camera, See had invested, without his permission, in fraudulent gold mine stock...
...auto crash; Cinemactress Pola Negri, in Santa Monica, Calif., following a critical operation for an intestinal obstruction; Senator Tasker Lowndes Oddie of Nevada, of a broken collarbone suffered during his morning canter, when his mount stumbled and fell on him; Biographer Giles Lytton Strachey, of paratyphoid fever; Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill, British statesman, of bruises and a slight case of pleurisy contracted after he was struck by an automobile last fortnight (TIME, Dec. 21). His nose and forehead bandaged, Statesman Churchill left the hospital in a wheelchair after having received Mario Contasino, unemployed youth who ran him down through...
...Boston Latin School; I. L. Nisson, Brookline High School; R. W. Paul, Milton Academy; P. H. Phenix, Montclair High School, Montclair, N. J.; A. S. Pier, Jr., St. Paul's School, Concord, N. H.; Henry Primakoff, Morris High School, New York City; W. J. Pyles, Choate School, Wallingford, Conn.; Leonard Raum, Lynn Classical High School; H. J. Richard, Boston Latin School; H. E. Robbins, Atlantic City High School, Atlantic City, N. J.; M. D. Rubin, Boston Latin School...