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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. Henry L. Straus, 53, president of Tropical Park race track since 1941; in a private-plane crash; near Port Deposit, Md. Turfman Straus made a fortune in royalties out of his invention, the American totalizator, a complicated (1,500,000 moving parts) electrical device which automatically calculates the odds in pari-mutuel betting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Nov. 7, 1949 | 11/7/1949 | See Source »

...thieves ransacked the Craigte Street home of the Isidor Straus Professor of Business History and stole $326 in Canadian and American currency...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Gras Robbery Probed | 11/7/1949 | See Source »

...Athletic Committee placed Matthews North, Straus South, Hollis, Weld South, Lionel, Thayer North and South, Massachusetts, and Grays in the National League. The American League includes Thayer Middle, Holworthy, Stoughton, Weld North, Mower, Matthews South, Wigglesworth, and Straus North...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Athletic Committee Forms Yard Leagues | 10/28/1949 | See Source »

Tomorrow, at 2 p.m.: Grays vs. Lionel and Mower vs. Stoughton. At 3 p.m.: Thayer South vs. Massachusetts and Thayer Middle vs. Weld North. Straus South vs. Hollis and Holworthy vs. Stoughton...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Athletic Committee Forms Yard Leagues | 10/28/1949 | See Source »

Also Francis J. O'Neil and Arthur L. Herbst of Stoughton; Thomas H. Petscheck of Straus; Henry F. McGusker, Jr., of Wigglesworth; John S. Herman and Stanley E. Tobin of Grays; David M. Silverman and Arthur A. Sloane of Hollis...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: '53 Elects Union Committee Under New Constitution | 10/19/1949 | See Source »

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