Word: rans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Make no mistake about that: Mr. Roosevelt can only blame himself, because all he had to do, to discover Mr. Black's qualifications, was to question some of his advisors. Why, Charley Michelson (Democratic publicity agent) could have told him that Black was the Klan-supported nominee when he ran for the Senate in Alabama. Michelson himself when he was on the the old New York "World" wrote articles mourning the substitution of a man like Black for former Senator Oscar Underwood...
...singers cheered the company with song. Eighteen days from Wake Island, the forlorn, pitiable band, too weak to row or bail, burned black by sun, grounded their boat at Guam. Only account of this extraordinary voyage seems to have been published in the magazine, The Friend, which Colonel Bicknell ran across...
...while some of her judgments remain arbitrary and personal, educators and historians can compare her new book with her old for a picture of changes that have come over U. S. manners during the 15 years in which Prohibition had its heyday and departed, in which the jazz age ran its course, in which women's skirts rose and fell and rose again like the curtain on a play, in which radio, automobiles, airplanes, and divorce altered the tempo of U. S. life. Examples of the new Etiquette's changes and additions...
Ever since he turned up one day at New York's Empire City race track with $1,000 which he shortly ran up to $25,000, Mr. Rooney, who looks a great deal like a football himself, has been turning his every horse hunch to gold. The first day he appeared at Saratoga he won the astounding sum of $108,000. On another day he won $50,000 and on the closing day $15,000. Admiring Bookmaker Tim Mara told how Bettor Rooney had been talking football to a friend at the Saratoga rail when the news was brought...
George Wingfield bought a faro outfit, set himself up in the roaring mining town of Tonopah and began to rake in the shekels. Before long he was known as the ''Boy Gambler," ran his own gambling joint in Goldfield in competition with the late Tex Rickard. Meanwhile he was speculating steadily in low-price mining stocks. One was the Mohawk mine, which in 1906 struck gold, reached a value of $7,000,000 in seven months. Wingfield and Nixon joined forces, bought other properties which they incorporated as Goldfield Consolidated Mines Co. with a capitalization...