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Last week William V. Dwyer, sportsman, race track owner, head of a $40,000,000 liquor syndicate, was convicted along with his "payoff man," E. C. Cohron, of conspiracy to violate the prohibition law, sentenced to two years' imprisonment and a $10,000 fine, the maximum penalty under the law. Asked by U. S. Attorney Emory R. Buckner if he had received a "square deal," Mr. Dwyer smiled. "Positively," he said...
Divorced. Paul du Bonnet, distiller, sportsman, scion of the du Bonnets whose aperitif advertisements plaster every other billboard in France; by the onetime Christine Coty, daughter of the internationally famed perfumer, in Paris. He, it is rumored, will soon marry the notorious Mrs. Nash, famed as "the best dressed woman in the world...
...King, a trained engineer, a general of tried experience,† an all-round sportsman and aviator, ripe with the judgment of two score and ten, began at once to exercise his dictatorial power with vigor, discretion, wisdom...
...Farmer Fred Burdsall, the hound's owner, Sportsman Fisher then explained that dogs were a nuisance yelping at six o'clock in the morning. Farmer Burdsall marvelled to hear this, for Sportsman Fisher, as a member of the Fairfield and Westchester County Hounds, must often have arisen as early as six o'clock to chase foxes in his fine red coat behind a whole pack of hounds baying past the sleepy neighbors' windows. Sportsman Fisher offered Farmer Burdsall $200 damages for the dead hound. Farmer Burdsall declined...
...Sportsman Fisher reminded Farmer Burdsall of his emphatic "No Trespassing" signs. Farmer Burdsall replied that his hound could not read...