Word: second
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Stolid, stoop-shouldered, 26-year-old Ralph Guldahl: the U. S. Open golf championship; defeating 164 of the country's top-notch amateurs and professionals; for the second year in a row; coming from behind in the last round with an astonishing sub-par 69 while the leaders were cracking all around him; for a total of 284, six strokes better than second-place Dick Metz of Chicago; over the ribbon-fairwayed Cherry Hills course, one mile above sea level; at Denver. Champion Guldahl, who was glad to get an odd job as a carpenter two years ago, broke...
Roving Prof (Tues. 7:45 p. m. NBC-Red). Northwestern's peripatetic Bill McGovern in the second of a 5-week series on family life in the Orient. Subject : In a Buddhist Monastery...
...Federal Trade Commission told a New York jewelry store named L. & C. Mayers Co. to "cease & desist" calling itself a wholesaler when most of its trade was done retail at non-wholesale prices-with people who were misled into thinking they were getting a bargain. Last week the Second Circuit Court upheld the 1935 FTC order. Immediately the National Retail Furniture Association started a drive to eliminate "gyp-wholesaling" in furniture. Perfectly legal, of course, remains the business of genuine wholesalers who occasionally retail goods at wholesale prices...
When Frank Dan died last month, he left his estate to his widow with the proviso that Audrey Bridget and Frank Dan Jr., "the good son," inherit it later. Thereupon Elisha and his second wife marched out of their small flat in Greenwich Village, reminded his relatives of the will left in 1901 by his great-uncle, Inventor-Founder Lewis Edson Waterman. None of the Waterman clan but Elisha had remembered that this sage greybeard bequeathed 60% of the fountain-pen stock to Frank Dan Waterman with the proviso that on his death it go to Elisha. Said Elisha last...
Last week Wall Street was still chuckling over an incident which somewhat supports criticism of the setup: Fitch's rated the recent $100,000,000 issue of U. S. Steel debentures as AAA (highest), Standard as A1 (second rank), Poor's and Moody's as A (third rank). Last week, too, Secretary of the Treasury Morgenthau revealed that the group which has been devising a uniform bank examination was also brewing substantial modifications of bond ratings and eligibility...