Word: pit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sole Hoover opponent for the Presidency, would not be allowed inside the Stadium. But there would be a struggle worth watching, thought observers, when the Prohibition section of the platform came to the floor. Nicholas Murray Butler and tall, white- maned Senator Hiram Bingham of Connecticut had promised to pit their minority Repeal plank against the Administration's Revision proposal, over which the Resolutions Committee had been toiling for 24 hours...
Board of Trade to Arms. Last week Farmers National Grain Corp., subsidiary of the Federal Farm Board, had no trading privileges on the Chicago Board of Trade. This situation came about as an upshot of the long and bitter feud between the Pit...
...accidents arising out of circumstances which he had publicly warned them to avoid. He therefore went scot free. When a series of near-accidents begin to happen to them, Mrs. Clive and O'Ryan are certain that her husband has planned their murders The arbor collapses, a pit is mysteriously dug in the garden, the stair rail falls. Actor Conroy's sinister joviality through all this excites a great deal of amused tittering from his audiences, goes far to compensate for but does not prevent the lameness of the farce's conclusion. The hand that flutters...
Divorced, Frances Williams, musico-medienne; from Lester Clark, orchestra pianist; in Chicago. Grounds: cruelty, fighting. Said Miss Williams: "When I was playing in The New Yorkers, my husband was playing in the pit. He often missed beats just to annoy...
...given him by his father as a graduation present, he cornered the wheat market, only to lose everything- including a paper profit of some $7,000,000 and $12,000,000 of his father's fortune-after being "double crossed" by some of his associates in the pit. In 1923 his sister, the Countess of Suffolk and Bershire (another sister, who died in 1906, was the wife of the late great Marquess Curzon of Kedleston, onetime Viceroy of India) brought suit to have him removed as trustee of the family's estate. She charged mismanagement and incompetency. After...