Word: saigh
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...years ago, Busch scored his biggest advertising coup by buying the St. Louis Cardinals baseball team when the Cardinals' owner, Fred Saigh, was jailed for income-tax evasion. Ostensibly, Busch bought the Cardinals to save them for St. Louis. But he makes no bones about the fact that the team helps him sell more Budweiser. When sportswriters needle him about his commercialism, Busch snorts that Colonel Jacob Ruppert owned the New York Yankees for 30 years while he also owned Ruppert brewery, and that many of the 16 major-league team broadcasts are sponsored by beer companies...
...fight over Montgomery Ward was turning into a free-for-all. Last week, while Challengers Louis Wolfson and Fred Saigh, former owner of the St. Louis Cardinals, jabbed away, Board Chairman Sewell Avery got a possible new ally. The candidate: Britain's Isaac Wolfson (no kin to Florida's Louis), chairman of Great Universal Stores, Ltd., a giant mail-order firm with 1,000 retail outlets in Britain and Canada...
Having disposed of Wolfson, Sewell Avery gave the back of his other hand to another challenger for control of his company who popped up last week. The challenger: St. Louis' Fred M. Saigh, former owner of the St. Louis Cardinals baseball club, who was released a year ago after serving part of a 15-month jail sentence for income-tax evasion. Said Avery: "I don't know who he is. I see he is supposed to be a baseball man. I hear he slipped somewhere...
...years ago he was little more than an avid fan; then he went on a hunting trip with Outfielder Stan Musial. "Why don't you buy the Cards?" asked "Stan the Man." "Not a chance in the world," said Gussie. But, not long after, Cardinals Owner Fred Saigh was convicted of income-tax evasion and forced to sell the team (TIME, March 2, 1953). Gussie got his chance, and he jumped at it. In one year he has spent nearly $7,000,000 in an earnest effort to give St. Louis one of the best teams...
...Fred M. Saigh, former owner of the St. Louis Cardinals baseball team, was paroled from the federal pen in Terre Haute, Ind. after serving six months of a 15-month stretch for evading income taxes...