Word: milburn
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Devereux Milburn played a brilliant game at back but the team missed Harry Payne Whitney at No. 3. Under the hot sun at Meadow Brook, sitting in the stands under dainty parasols or fanning themselves with huge boaters, a crowd of 10,000 saw England's dashing polo team of four Army officers win the second straight game against the U. S. for the Westchester Cup. That was June 16, 1914. England has not won a polo game against the U. S. since...
...copy their U. S. rivals. They would also like to play as ably. When competition for the Westchester Cup began in 1886, ten years after polo was introduced in the U. S. by Publisher James Gordon Bennett, England won regularly. The famed "Big Four" of U. S. polo - Devereux Milburn, Harry Payne Whitney and the Waterbury brothers, Monty and Larry - turned the tide in 1909, won again in 1911 and 1913, without losing a game. The U. S. lost the Westchester Cup in 1914, regained it in the first series after the War in 1921. British teams challenging...
Tall, dimpled Evelyn Preston, president of the League, asked why 1935 earnings failed by 50? per share to cover the $1.60 dividend. President Milburn said most of the difference was due to produce losses (30? per share), the farmers' milk strike in Illinois (10? to 15?) and a strike of milk wagon drivers in Milwaukee (remainder...
...utter unreasonableness of the union's demands made that impossible,'' snapped President Milburn...
...that is so," countered President Milburn, "the loss is taken up elsewhere because our sales show an increase...