Word: poloist
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Instead of spike-driving, these two gentlemen and a convivial party of 58- including Postmaster General Brown, Superintendent Earl Wadsworth of the U. S. airmail service, Vice-Chairman Graham Bethune Grosvenor of Aviation Corp. (holding company of American Airways), Poloist-Banker J. Cheever Cowdin of Bancamerica-Blair, and many a wife- repaired the night before the line's opening to Atlanta's smart Piedmont Driving Club for a banquet. Georgia's Governor Hardman and Atlanta's Mayor Ragsdale made speeches...
...William Averell Harriman and his brother, Edward Roland Noel Harriman, formed W. A. Harriman & Co. Work, say friends, burned out the senior Harriman. Unlike his father, W. A. Harriman is a strenuous athlete, famed chiefly as a poloist. In 1920 he set out to make the U. S. great upon the sea, formed an alliance with Hamburg-American Line. Thwarted in the fulfillment of this, he has endeavored to place the name of Harriman in the air as his father did upon the land, and last year his firm together with Lehman Bros, and others backed Aviation Corp. His other...
...Poloist Thomas Hitchcock...
...idea is that this Bengal lancer has already had, if not nine lives like a cat, at any rate more than one. But Onetime Lancer Yeats-Brown would probably admit he was unusual. Not every fresh-cheeked British boy from Sandhurst turns into a No. 1 poloist and pig-sticker, nor discovers a thirst for the mysteries of Hindu Yoga...
Buffalo. William Matthews Kecking, director of the Albright Art Gallery in Buffalo, reported to New York police last week that the pernicious William Wilbur J. Cooke had sold two spurious Stuart Washingtons for $21,000 each, one to Seymour Horace Knox, banker-poloist of Buffalo and East Aurora, N. Y.; one to Walstein C. Findlay of Kansas City, Mo. Mr. Findlay fortunately had paid but $5,000 cash when the fraud was discovered...