Word: moneyed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...California racing fans, impatiently awaiting the opening of Santa Anita on the last day of the year, the Adams v. Longden rivalry was particularly exciting. Although neither jockey is as well known nationally as Eddie Arcaro, generally considered the best rider in the country, or Nick Wall. No. 1 money winner of the year (some $400.000 for his employers), Johnny Longden and Johnny Adams are great favorites on the West Coast...
Unlike Johnny Adams. Johnny Longden has raced on the "big apple" (New York tracks), has matched his skill against the top-notch jockeys of the country at all the Eastern tracks, is the second highest money winner ($250,000) as well as the leading rider. Ever since 1935 when he made his Eastern debut by winning five out of six races on Bert Baroni's Top Row, Johnny Longden has been in great demand. A contract rider for the famed Wheatley Stable until two months ago, he is now under contract to Don Cameron, trainer for the stables...
...brokerage account of Dr. Coster's wife, Carol, on the ground that "she is in all probability in possession of funds which . . . may be ... derived from . . . fraudulent practices." That seemed to point to a possible answer to one question in the mystery: what happened to the money? Other questions remained unanswered. What the crude drug department's real business was, nobody knew. Whether there were any real warehouses where drugs or liquor might be cached, nobody knew. How long the crude drug department had been making false inventory reports, or whether it had ever traded in legitimate drugs...
...elevator is too small to accommodate even a cot. This simply means that the really sick patients are trapped in their beds in times of emergencies, and everyone is at all times generally inconvenienced. There is a crying need for more modern equipment. Although a large sum of money was spent last summer in various improvements, this appears to be only a stop-gap measure, and Stillman's facilities remain inadequate...
...Money for the committee will be gathered by such benefit performances as a joint glee club concert of the four colleges. Ernest M. Jarndorf '41, of the University Refugee Committee, suggested that a benefit of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, formerly planned for the use of the Harvard Committee, might be turned over to the central group...