Word: owner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Seven weeks ago the Pirates were rated one of the strongest teams in the League. Owner Rooney, who won some $200,000 on horses last year, had rounded up the most expensive collection of stars in major-league football. No. 1 star: Rhodes Scholar Byron (''Whizzer") White, at $15,000 for eleven games...
...Pirates' home games at Forbes Field (National League baseball park) because of the World Series plans of the baseball-playing Pirates. That deprived him of large gate receipts. Then the Whizzer, who had scored 122 points for the University of Colorado last year, was unable to whiz for Owner Rooney. Some observers, noting that White averaged only 2½ yards per try, accused his teammates of refusing to give him proper interference...
Month ago Owner Rooney released two of his ablest backs. Last fortnight he sold three others. He even peddled the Whizzer but there were no buyers. Last week, looking like a one-man team, the Pirates played the Green Bay Packers, were slaughtered, 20-to-0. Whizzer White, who had carried the ball 81 times in six previous games (nearly twice as many as any other player in the league), had apparently only begun to work...
...affair with the wife of the tax collector, as is the local doctor; the dealer in funeral wreaths is embracing his wife's maid, who is also having an affair with the son of a schoolteacher, who, in turn, is mixed up with the nymphomaniac daughter of the owner of the local chocolate factory. Although a sombre political note runs through all these complex relationships, the political confusions are less interesting than the amorous ones, and the passions unleashed are well-nigh sufficient to explain the disasters that have since overtaken France...
...Paul Smyth had received 16 offers of a job. By Oct. 1 he had investigated the best bets, had accepted the offer of an Arkansas plantation owner, wrote TIME as follows...