Word: sutler
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Exciting show: Cavalcade of the Golden West-24 scenes in a pageant extending from Balboa's discovery of the Pacific and Cabrillo's discovery of California, through the discovery of gold in Sutler's Mill and Custer's Last Stand, to San Francisco in the all-too-gay Barbary-Coast Nineties...
When the Madrid embassy was officially abandoned by the U. S. last Thanksgiving, no provision was made for feeding the remaining Americans. This job fell naturally to Captain Cannaday, who was acclaimed sutler by the beleaguered refugees. First measure of Farmer Cannaday was to accept a loan of eight full-uddered Hereford cows from a dairyman whose farm lay in the path of Generalissimo Franco's advancing legionnaires. Quartered in the embassy garage and pastured on its expansive lawn, the cows produced enough milk to supply the embassy's needs, plus some for bartering purposes with the otherwise...
...official price of 20?. Farmer Cannaday complained eggs cost 60? a dozen to produce because of scarcity of grain, that he considered 15$ a dozen reasonable profit. The Leftist Government's inspectors remained adamant and at latest dispatches U. S. Embassy residents quivered with anxiety as Sutler Cannaday threatened, "I'm going to liquidate this poultry farm! I'm going to sell my hens for a measly $1.50 in inflated pesetas each! I'm going to abandon chicken houses, laying racks, individual pens and equipment on which I've spent...
...Esteban Reyes, a half-Indian nicknamed "Pajaro" because he swoops about the court like a small dark bird, was particularly eager to do well because he was playing on the courts of the Chapultepec Sports Club where he used to chase balls. But fair-haired young Clifford Sutler of New Orleans, playing lazily, beat him 6-1, 6-0, 6-1. The only satisfaction the crowd got the first day was the one set that small, slight Dr. Ricardo Tapia-who has been Mexican singles champion for the last five years, whose sister Maria is Mexico's woman champion...
...Gregory Mangin, of Newark, N. J., who has never won an important tournament outdoors: his second consecutive U. S. Indoor Tennis Championship against a crack field including Clifford Sutler, Francis. Shields, George Lott, Berkeley Bell; 6-1. 6-3, 2-6, 3-6, 6-2, in the final against Sutter; in Manhattan. ¶ Glenn Cunningham of Kansas: a mile race in the Knights of Columbus Games, with Glen Dawson of Tulsa second, Carl Coan of Penn third and Gene Venzke of Penn, who set the world's record of 4:10 a year ago and has hitherto been Cunningham...