Word: richness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Stewart defeated Blake 6-0, 6-0; Feoran defeated Mendel by default; Higgins defeated Shain 6-3, 6-3; Everts defeated Whyte 6-3, 6-3; Day defeated Sucas 3-6, 6-3, 6-3; Twitchell defeated Rich 6-1, 6-1; Legg defeated Rosoff 6-2, 6-1; Mittell defeated Harvey 6-1, 6-2; Newkert defeated Cohen by default; Stratton defeated Vaughn 6-1, 6-0; Davison defeated Plaut 6-3, 6-1; White defeated Robbins 7-5, 6-1; Reed defeated Anderson 6-4, 6-4; Westheimer defeated Schiller by default; Sulloway defeated Skinner by default...
About that time one of the feeblest teams in big-time competition was the Blue Devil aggregation of mighty, tobacco-rich Duke, which, having re-entered football in 1920 after a lapse of 25 years, had changed coaches almost every year without making any appreciable dent on its neighbors. On Jan. 15, 1931 Wallace Wade went to Durham as football coach and athletic director at an undisclosed salary (reputedly $15,000 plus a share of the gate receipts). That fall Duke did nothing notable except tie its ancient rival, the University of North Carolina, 0-to-0. In 1932 Duke...
Significant was the fact that the week's outstanding banking blast against Washington came from Rochester instead of from Boston. Apparently to avoid implicating the A. B. A., Banker Winthrop W. Aid-rich, chairman of New York's Chase National Bank, chose a luncheon meeting of the Rochester Chamber of Commerce as a rostrum for the most outspoken if not the most original attack upon the New Deal since the current market crash began. In a concise analysis of the situation which warmed the hearts of Wall Street, Banker Aldrich repeated and amplified the assertions made by President...
Lawyer Shutts as receiver in 1910. Forthwith he liquidated the paper, built upon its ruins the hardy Herald. Like Publisher Knight a successful practitioner of absentee ownership, Publisher Shutts soon had gathered on the side a rich law practice, shortly found himself a rough & ready millionaire of whom 0. O. Mclntyre delighted to write: "A visiting Duchess once asked him his favorite dish and he replied it was the Ohio River mud catfish...
...colorful crew of filibusterers. The first step was when he fell for a beautiful "rebel hellcat" named Brandon Hawkes who led him on only long enough to frame him for the murder of a carpetbagger. The real murderer was her cousin Ranee Hawkes, chief gunrunner and suitor for a rich, fabulous Texas beauty named Vashti Silver, who had been commissioned by old Sam Houston to carry on his fight to annex Mexico. Released. Cantrell set out to get Ranee and Brandon-in different ways...