Word: res
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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While Snead was living up to the expectations of the gallery, his confrères were reassuring experienced observers who know that golf's uncertainties make such performances by favorites wildly improbable. On the very first hole, Al Watrous, home pro at Oakland Hills, took two strokes to get out of a trap which, in innumerable unimportant rounds, he had invariably avoided. Bert McDowell, an able amateur from Baton Rouge, knocked three balls into the lake on the 16th hole, took three putts for an n, posted a 91, high score for the first day. Young Frank Strafaci...
Henderson came by his music naturally. His father was a theatrical producer who put on U. S. premières of Gilbert & Sullivan at the old Fifth Avenue Theatre. Ettie Henderson, his mother, was an ac tress, playwright and musician. She taught her son to sing and play when he was only seven...
...members, there are 23,000,000 workers whom the A.F. of L. has failed to attract at all along craft lines, and presumably these men will join industrial unions. While the American Federation of Labor is left with one tenth of the eligible workers, the C.I.O. gets the res, and in view of the comparative sizes the desertion of the Federation is not the same as knifiing the whole labor front...
...that FCA, HOLC and RFC had bailed insurance" companies out of some $523,000,000 of troublesome assets, declared U. S. life insurance policies "the safest of all possible securities." Later when newshawks asked him if the conference was, in effect, a retort to GOPartisan Knox, the President replied: "Res ipsa loquitur...
Sixth in total business was Blyth & Co., Charles Edwin Mitchell's new stand. "Charlie" Mitchell's financing for the first half footed up to $263,000,000. Other ranking houses: Lazard Frères ($168,000,000); Bancamerica-Blair ($156,000,000); Halsey, Stuart ($143,000,000); Lehman Bros. ($137,000,000); A. C. Allyn ($128,000,000); Mellon Securities ($113,000,000); Field Glore & Co. ($113,000,000). Chase National Bank was well up in the list ($136,000,000) with its municipal bond underwriting, which is still permissible for commercial banks...