Word: roses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...STEPHEN ROSE Balboa...
After the Rose Bowl game of 1937, University of Pittsburgh's victorious Coach John Bain ("Jock") Sutherland asked Athletic Director W. Don Harrison for a handful of spending money so that the team, having just netted Pitt $95,000 by beating Washington, could celebrate in Hollywood. Director Harrison primly refused. Jock shelled out the money himself, fought the matter out in Pittsburgh until Harrison resigned that March. It was then that Chancellor John Gabbert Bowman turned from firing "liberal" teachers to purifying Pitt's frankly subsidized football team...
...been Bubble Dancer Sally Rand's "Nude Ranch" which, in its first eight days of business, grossed $40,000. Rancher Rand thereupon flew East to consider a future job at the New York World's Fair. Instead of a job, she drew a summons. Sharp little Billy Rose had brought suit against her, charging that he originated the title "Sally Rand's Nude Ranch" at the Fort Worth Centennial Exposition in 1936, owns all rights...
...week headlined: BUSINESS IN 15-WEEK SIDEWISE MOVE; BREAK EXPECTED TO BE ON 'UP' SIDE. Evidence to support this conclusion abounded. Such sensitive indexes as scrap steel and commodity prices were up. Steel production at 55.1% of capacity was near the year's peak. Automobile output rose, National Distillers Products Corp. filed the first large industrial bond issue ($22,500,000) since November. And the Dow-Jones industrial stock averages climbed to 149.49, a gain of 13 points from the year's low on January...
...making by social conscience or social anger. By-blow of a provincial actress, adopted into a Cockney fishmonger family, he quit school at 12, worked as newsboy, printer's devil, hod carrier, milkman's helper, joined the army at 18, got plenty of hard knocks as he rose from jingo Boer War correspondent to London newspaper editor to rich writer. But said Edgar Wallace in later years: "There cannot be much wrong with a society which made possible the rise of . . . Edgar Wallace...