Word: martinisms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...forced three months ago to ask for an even larger government subsidy. The Government promised that the subsidy for the New York line alone would be raised from 4,000,000 to 30,000,000 francs a year, and in return delegated former Minister of Finance Louis Germain-Martin and a new board of directors to reorganize the line. But with a French loan to dangle before German noses, Mm. Laval & Briand could do far more for the line than any board of directors...
...first seconds of the game. When Boss John Francis Curry of Tammany Hall threw in the first ball, he was instantly surrounded by a swarm of hurlers struggling to get at it with their hurleys. Boss Curry, who used to be a sprinter, scampered to the sidelines uninjured. Martin Kennedy, called "the man in the hat" because he always wears one, and considered the finest full forward in the world, made three goals for Tipperary. Tom Treacy, famed for a game he played in Dublin with a bloody bandage wrapped around his head, made another, with a shot from midfield...
Stoughton 22-24: G. B. Van Schaack '29; Holworthy 4: R. K. Lamb '28; Holworthy 20: M. A. Francon; Thayer 29: Madison Sayles '27; Thayer 9: A. B. Martin '30; Thayer 54: J. D. Gordon, Jr. '30; Weld 5: J. H. Pratt; Weld 35; L. H. Butterfield '30; Wigglesworth A 22; F. W. Hoeing; Wigglesworth D 21: W. M. Marvel; Wigglesworth E 12: R. G. Luckey '31; Wigglesworth I 22: R. I. W. Westgate; Wigglesworth K 22: R. A. Stout '29; Fairfax 307: E. M. Rowe '27; Walter Hastings 52; Donald Hiss...
...Spectator, insurance magazine, made known the names of 391 U. S. citizens carrying at least $1,000,000 worth of life insurance. Top five: Pierre Samuel du Pont, gunpowder maker ($7,000,000) ; John C. Martin of Curtis-Martin Newspapers Inc. ($6,540,000); William Fox, cinemagnate ($6,500,000); Herbert L. Dillon, stockbroker ($6,000,000); Marshall Field II, drygoodsman...
...quarterfinals, four fair-haired young players played four black-haired ones. Three of the fair-haireds?Henry Ellsworth Vines Jr., John Hope Doeg and George Martin Lott Jr.?beat Bell, Francis Xavier Shields and John Van Ryn, respectively. The only dark-haired player in the semi-finals was also the only Englishman in the tournament, Frederick J. Perry, onetime ping-pong champion and No. 2 singles player on the British Davis Cup team. His semi-final match with Vines was generally regarded as the one which would decide the championship. Vines won, after losing the first two sets...