Word: started
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Start in life: Practicing law under the watchful eye of the late great Philander Chase Knox...
...Arrive ten minutes before the hounds are scheduled to start. If the fixture is near you, hack to it so as to find your seat. But do not take a short-cut through likely coverts...
...four Smith boys now run the business, Jay as President, Bernard as Engineer, Owen as Buyer, Hamilton as General Factotum. Jay, who resembles his father but is more businesslike, was a real water baby. He ran passengers in his father's launch before he was old enough to start the engine; his aquatic stunts earned him the title of "the baby water wizard." As Gar Wood's mechanic he won many a race in boats built by his father.* Chris-Crafts tenders are popular among yachtsmen (General Motors' Alfred Pritchard Sloan recently bought...
...stock of Fox Film was increased from 900,000 to 4,900,000 shares, but the consolidation never took place. Last summer Mr. Fox, injured in an automobile accident (TIME, July 29), was away from his office for almost two months. When he recovered he scarcely had time to start his plan with an attempt to distribute Fox Theatres stock to his patrons (TIME, Oct. 21) before the stockmarket crashed...
...Other Piggott campaigning methods included a "Sermon Against Booze" on each pay statement. Typical of these was: "To the married man who thinks he cannot get along without his drinks the following is suggested as a solution to the bondage of the habit: "1. Start a saloon in your own house. "2. Be the only customer and you will have no license to pay. Give your wife $2 to buy a gallon of whiskey and remember that there are 69 drinks to the gallon. "3. Buy your drinks from no one but your wife. By the time the first gallon...