Word: plates
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Brothers Van Sweringen, clients of the House of Morgan, began building up their railroad empire in 1916 on a loan, borrowing from a Cleveland bank $2,000,000 to make a cash payment to the New York Central for the Nickel Plate. According to Inquisitor Pecora, they got control "without putting up a 5¢ piece...
...Wilbur Glenn Voliva, frock-coated overlord of Zion, Ill. and vociferous High Priest of the Christian Catholic Apostolic Church, the world is shaped like a soup-plate. In 1931 he proved this by taking a trip around the world's periphery. When he returned he bragged to newsmen that he was "worth $10,000,000" (TIME, March 16, 1931). He owned everything in Zion, which included candy bar, cookie and lace factories, bank, department store, publishing house, cement plant, bakery. Last week Mr. Voliva was an involuntary bankrupt and his Zion industries were in receivership. Liabilities were listed...
...battery alone of the team players has escaped the radical shake-up, as Nevin will again start behind the plate, while either Loughlin, Taylor, or McJennett will start in the pitcher's box. Along with the general revamping of the team, deGive, a pitcher on the Jayvees, and Kiernan, an infielder on the same team, have been added to the Varsity squad. The changes in the lineup, so far as can be ascertained, are aimed to steady down the team, a circumstance necessitated by the disastrous defeat the nine suffered at the hands of Holy Cross last Saturday...
...parade. On scaffolding before it stood a big, drooping man with a gloomy face and sad Mexican eyes: Diego Rivera, the world's foremost living fresco painter. A guard called to Rivera to come down from his scaffold. He laid down his big brushes and the tin kitchen plate he uses for a palette, climbed nimbly down the ladder. Mr. Robertson handed him an envelop. It held a check for $14,000, last payment on the $21,000 due Rivera for his work. It held too a letter telling him he was fired. Artist Rivera woodenly went...
There is little doubt, however, that Taylor will pitch the team to its seventh victory. As the season has progressed the Crimson has become a more formidable threat chiefly because of the work of Nevin behind the plate and at bat. He stands a favorable chance of winding up among the first four batters in the Eastern Intercollegiate League...