Word: sportsmans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Only a Duke, a holder of Britain's No. 1 war decoration, the D. S. O., and a sportsman of national renown could have mustered the prestige necessary to carry on. Stamping machines were ordered. The millions of unsold tickets were over printed thus: "Cancelled - But the Duke of Atholl in vites the public to buy this specimen ticket for 10s. Solely as a memento of a commendable effort to assist British charities and upon the basis that the proceeds of sale shall be disposed of in such manner as the Duke of Atholl shall, in his absolute...
Died. Archibald McNeal Johnson, 43, lawyer, sportsman, second son of U. S. Senator Hiram Warren Johnson of California; by his own hand (pistol); in his home outside San Francisco. An artillery major in the World War, wounded at Chateau Thierry, he was said by friends to have suffered from recurrent shell-shock. Divorced in June from Martha Ruddy Leet Johnson, he left a note in verse, ending: "Forgive me, God. for all I've done to please that ever-grasping one who took my very life...
Married, John Borden, 49, oil tycoon, sportsman-explorer, divorced month ago by Courtney Letts Stillwell Borden (TIME, July 10); and Frances Yeaton, 21, his secretary; in Muskegon, Mich...
...Pamela Chandor, by an interlocutory decree giving the father custody of their daughter, Jill, 13, and forbidding Mrs. Chandor to remarry during his lifetime; in Manhattan. Grounds: while Painter Chandor was busy in the U. S., she lived for two years in England with the Hon. Douglas Beauchamp, British sportsman. Left. By Edwin Gould, second son of the late famed financier Jay Gould: $20,000,000 (estimated); half to his wife Sarah Cantine Schrady Gould, the balance (except for small miscellaneous bequests) to the Edwin Gould Foundation for children; income from the Foundation's share fo be paid...
...bear speculator Bernard E. ("Ben") Smith. They included Bernard F. Gimbel, head of Manhattan's Gimbel's; Donald M. Smith, broker (no relation) ; F. S. Argnimbau; Edward J. Flynn, Democratic boss of The Bronx and backer of Franklin Roosevelt; Eddie Dowling, comedian; James Joseph Tunney, financier-sportsman...