Word: rosoff
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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...
...been operated at a loss by court trustees. Sole bidder for its assets last week was a contractor named Harry R. Pearley, whose offer of $100,100 was promptly accepted. Newshawks soon found that the real buyer was not Mr. Pearley but a fat and fabulous man named Samuel Rosoff who was pacing about at the fringe of the crowd. Asked why he bought it, Rosoff explained...
...annually between New York and Albany before it went bankrupt. Its four passenger ships are the finest of their kind afloat. The Berkshire, world's largest river steamer, accommodates 2.400 passengers, has 413 staterooms. Night liners take 12 hours to cover their 160-mile route. Last week Buyer Rosoff promised to build "swell new boats," put the line on its sea-legs...
Samuel Rufus Rosoff was born in Minsk, Russia, 53 years ago. Aged u, he worked his way to the U. S. as a potato-peeler on an immigrant ship. A tough, dirty little boy who had never been inside a school, he sold newspapers, slept on warm sidewalk gratings, learned to read at the Public Library. One job led to another until Samuel Rosoff was building New York City subways, operating bus lines, brewing King's beer, buying race horses and making money hand over fist. Today he often carries $50,000 cash in his pockets, tells competitors: "Money...
...plan was offered by Samuel P. Rosoff, wealthy subway contractor. It was drawn up by the legal firm of Satterlee & Canfield. Herbert Livingston Satterlee is a brother-in-law of J. P. Morgan. The member of the firm who drew the plan was David M. Milton, son-in-law of John Davison Rockefeller Jr. Neither the young Jewish banker who brought the Bank of U. S. to glory and destruction, nor his methods were ever given much countenance by the higher financial community. If the proposed reorganization is carried out, the bank will pass apparently into another circle of financial...