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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...atmosphere of "we're-all-B. & O.-men-together" is one President Willard likes to get into his bulletins. Sample: "No matter how hard we try, we cannot make the B. & O. the greatest, straightest or richest railroad, but we can. if we try hard enough, create for it the reputation of being the best railroad in the world from the point of service." A prime Willard maxim: "Be a good neighbor." Farmer boys and girls up and down his line get settings of eggs. Officials are sent to make friends with local shippers. And in 1927 "Uncle...
...rooms where cinema celebrities and others who can afford to lose are encouraged to expand the limits at roulette, birdcage, chemin de fer, craps. There is small call for champagne cheaper than Mumm's Cordon Rouge. Agua Caliente's golf tournament-first prize $15,000-is the richest in the world. Even more of an attraction than these for Hollywood plutocrats has been the racetrack, which was constructed at a cost of $2,500,000 by removing part of a mountain. The Annual Agua Caliente Handicap, which was to have been run on March 20 and for which...
...Frederick Bethune Bartlett was last week consecrated a Protestant Episcopal Bishop of North Dakota, in Fargo, N. Dak. Also consecrated last week was Dr. Frederick Grandy Budlong, rector of Christ Church, Greenwich (reputedly richest U. S. parish), appointed last autumn to be Bishop Coadjutor of Connecticut (TIME, Sept. 21). Consecrator: Presiding Bishop Perry, assisted by nine prelates, among whom was Bishop James Edward Freeman of Washington, who said in the consecration sermon: "We literally pipe to the people, but they do not dance. . . . Our ministry is all too often identified with a type that represents culture and wealth...
...winter golf circuit starts at San Francisco, moves down the coast to Pasadena and Agua Caliente for the richest ($15,000) tournament in the world. Then it jumps to Florida for Open tournaments at Belleair. Fort Lauderdale, Miami, St. Augustine and usually the La Gorce Open at Miami Beach, for which the $15,000 prize money has not been posted this year. It ends in March with the North & South Open at Pinehurst. Obscure young Eastern professionals often club together to buy an old car for the tour of Florida's tournaments, hoping that luck and the urgent need...
...buried treasure. First he thought he would try the Salvage Islands, found out just in time he had been forestalled. Then he decided on Cocos Island.* Capt. Campbell says there are three separate treasures on the island, estimates their combined value at ?12,000,000, calls them "the richest and most authentic pirates' treasures in the world...