Word: owner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Queen and the Prince of Wales stood up and waved excitedly as the crowd surged about the winning horse. The excitement was not simply because a colt named Limelight had just won the Jersey Stakes, but because Limelight was being led in from the track by its proud owner-King George...
...Carlos Guillermo Davila, onetime Chilean Ambassador at Washington. Thus the situation at Santiago was comparatively stable last week. Censorship had been clamped down tighter than ever and a state of siege declared. Outgoing telephone calls in English were censored by William Murray, Negro, onetime U. S. boxer. Negro Murray, owner of a gymnasium, enjoys the confidence of Santiago's elite and is not identified with "Yankee Imperialism...
Like many a rebel against orthodoxy, George Grosz was a youngest child. His father was a restaurant owner, of the same solid bourgeoisie the son now satirizes. In the War, Grosz fought first in the Kaiser Franz Regiment, then in the 52nd, became a sergeant, was invalided without a wound...
...doctor advises me, because of my sinus condition, that it would be inadvisable to attempt any road trips with the club this season, so I suggested to Mr. Stoneham [Giant owner] that another manager be appointed. . . . We therefore agreed on Bill Terry [Giant first baseman, whom Owner Stoneham last spring threatened to 'drive out of baseball' when he refused the $15,000 salary offered him]. . . . I want it fully understood that Terry will have full and complete charge of the team and will have to assume entire responsibility therefor...
Born in Truxton, N. Y. in 1873, McGraw began to play professional baseball when he was 17. A year later he joined the famed Baltimore Orioles. Quick, small irascible, he played third base while the Orioles won three pennants. When Owner Andrew Freeman offered him the job of managing the Giants McGraw demanded full control. He sold half the players, finished second in 1903, first...