Word: ryans
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Miss Elizabeth Ryan is a good tennis player. A healthy, strapping woman in her middle years, with a face that reddens rapidly when exposed to the sun, she plays the sort of game that is always dangerous but never spectacular. Last year in the finals at Seabright she beat Helen Wills. It was too bad, people said, but you could not expect a champion to be always at her best. When, last week, Miss Ryan cut down Miss Wills decisively in the same tournament, 6-4, 6-1, newspapers reminded the public that Miss Wills had just lost her appendix...
Separated. Paul D. Cravath, 65, distinguished Manhattan corporation lawyer of the firm of Cravath, Henderson, & de Gersdorff whose clients include Thomas F. Ryan, Kuhn Loeb & Co., Speyer & Co.; and Agnes (Huntington) Cravath, onetime opera singer; after 32 years of married life.* In the actual language of the press of the '90s, he, "a devoted lover, a strapping fellow with sweeping mustachios of dark brown" impatiently climbed a 20-ft. ladder of the steamer Teutonic to meet his lady...
...share. Nor was there an immediate reaction when George Fisher Baker, highly potent director of the corporation said last week: "I do riot take any stock in the rumors that the shares of the Steel Corporation will be split and put on a $4 or $5 basis." Ryan. Governors of an institution the joint resources of which total one billion dollars, the Board of Directors of the National City Bank of New York, last week sat in solemn conclave. The roster of the world's most potent bank includes the names of Capitalist N. F. Brady, Shipper...
...Alan A. Ryan, who in February 1920 secured a corner on Stutz shares, only to have them left on his hands without a market when the stock was stricken from the New York Stock Exchange list...
Thomas Fortune Ryan, noted Chicago and New York street railway promoter, daring purchaser of the Equitable Life Assurance Society...