Word: madison
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week, 200 rodeo performers-men and women who average $2,000 a year in prize money, out of which they pay their own expenses, entry fees and hospital bills -were on hand for the opening in Madison Square Garden. New features: a Mexican band; a corral full of Canadian bucking horses freshly picked by Colonel Johnson's bronco scout, Mike Hastings; Horseshoe Pitcher Ted Allen of Alhambra, Calif., whose best trick consists of making a shoe knock a paper bag off the head of an assistant named George on its way to falling for a ringer...
...exceeding $1,000,000. Old, ignorant and despised, Daniel Drew spent his last years dependent on his son. But he had one consolation-religion. He was a pious Methodist whom Wall Street called "Deacon Dan." In the days of his wealth he endowed Drew Theological Seminary (now University) at Madison, N. J. He also contributed heavily to a young ladies' seminary and three churches near his birthplace-Brewster Methodist Episcopal Church, Mt. Carmel Baptist Church, Daniel Drew Methodist Episcopal Church. Last week, still grateful to "Deacon Dan," Methodists gathered at Carmel to honor his unsavory memory...
LIKE James Melton, Don Ameche didn't win an athletic letter in school, but Don was also a three college man, the Alma Maters being Georgetown, Marquette (Milwaukee), and Wisconsin. He was working for a law degree on The hill at Madison in 1907 when Prof. William c. Troutman cast him in a few college shows. Thereafter, Professor Troutman...
These two kids, a girl from a Madison, Wisconsin high school, and a boy from Kenosha, upstate, who came together at Wisconsin to take lessons from Prof. William C. Troutman, are doing very well for themselves...
...proxy fight for control of Madison Square Garden Corp. (TIME, Sept. 23), Colonel John Reed Kilpatrick (president) outpointed Colonel John S. Hammond (chairman) 144,000 to 129,000 votes. Starting in the club barroom of the famed sports arena, with a policeman at the door, the meeting lasted four days while election judges wrangled over the count. Colonel Hammond announced that he would challenge Colonel Kilpatrick's victory in the courts...