Word: losings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Warren Williams, ranking as number three man, put up a good fight to lose only by the score of 3 to 2 to Warren Delano. The scores here were 16-18, 16-18, 15-13, 17-16, and 18-16. Jim Rousmaniere, number four man played and lost his match on Monday, the games then being 3 to 1 and the scores, 15-9, 15-12, 15-16, and 15-11. His adversary was Walter S. Hardie...
Peeved at having to return virtually emptyhanded, Carol and the Crown Prince canceled tentative plans for a longer private stay, headed back to Bucharest. On the way the King was expected to call on Chancellor Hitler and German economic experts, who will probably lose no time in reminding him that a recent German offer to develop Rumanian oil fields and purchase Rumania's entire wheat crop for the next two years, in exchange for German manufactured goods, still stands. But they have no money to lend...
...Albert W. Johnston, owner of the Greenwich (Conn.) News-Graphic, who makes money from gold mines and doesn't like to lose it on newspapers, looked around for someone to put his paper on its feet. Johnston met Wythe Williams, and the Greenwich News-Graphic not only got a new editor but a new punning name, Greenwich Time. Wythe Williams set out to make his Connecticut suburban paper the Emporia Gazette of the East...
...controlling interest in the doddering Daily Express for $85,500. The same afternoon he had to draw $250,000 more from the bank to pay pressing liabilities. Lord Northcliffe, then at the height of his spectacular career, advised him to stay out of Fleet Street, warned: "You'll lose everything you have." This dare Beaverbrook took...
...would never have reached his poisoned lungs. Then came his fight with fumes and cold. Cold of eighty below zero which he must endure or else run the risk of the deadly smoke from the stove. Yet he never told Little America of his plight for fear they might lose their lives trying to save him during the winter storms...