Word: samuels
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...SAMUEL W. WHITE...
...quarter Suburban Handicap; by a nose, over Jerome Louchheim's four-year-old Pompoon; in 2 min., 1 2/5 sec., fastest undisputed time in the history of the race; at Belmont Park. Disgruntled was the crowd of 25,000 who had gone to the track hoping to see Samuel Riddle's famed War Admiral run against his old rival, Pompoon, as a substitute for the widely publicized $100,000 Memorial Day race with Seabiscuit, which had been called off earlier in the week because of Seabiscuit's weak knees. Just before the Suburban, and for an unexplained...
...association cautiously produced plans for a balustrade and terrace to serve as a setting for a group of statues on the bank. Mr. Samuel threw fits. His wife, he cried, had left her money for statues, not for balustrades. At this the association threw up its hands and settled down again to wait for Joseph Bunford Samuel to mellow with...
...Samuel, still adamantine, died in 1929. Four years later the Samuel Memorial Committee obeyed the first provision of Mrs. Samuel's will by holding a world competition for sculpture-to be grouped in three terraces designed by Philadelphia's smartest architect, Paul Philippe Cret. Last week the first completed piece of sculpture, Spanning the Continent, by Robert Laurent, was quietly installed in one completed terrace. A goodly distance from Mr. Samuel's lonely Viking, it consists of a stumpy, sun-bonneted female figure helping a gaunt pioneer youth push a large wheel in the direction...
Died. William Childs, 72, co-founder (with his late brother, Samuel) of Childs Restaurants; of a heart attack; in Bernardsville, N. J. A strict vegetarian, he was ousted from the management of his restaurants in 1929 by carnivorous majority stockholders, returned to his first and favorite occupation, farming...