Word: transition
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...finals belonged to one owner, Andrew G. C. Sage of New York, nephew of the late great Russell Sage. One was Superlette, nine-year-old bitch, who was runner-up last year after going through the trials in a splint to save her bad leg. The other was Rapid Transit, a muscular liver & white dog who, in his semi-final heat with the pointer Mad Anthony, made eleven finds, handled perfectly, wound up the last 30 min. of the three-hour run with three fine casts, each for a fresh find...
When he was braced with Superlette. there was one more thing the judges wanted to know about Rapid Transit- whether he would back properly on the other dog's find. Their chance came after an hour's run; Superlette froze directly in front of the gallery and the judges' stand. When Rapid Transit honored her perfectly without a word of advice from his handler. Clyde Morton of Alberta, Ala., the judges decided that his performance was complete. They did not bother to name a runner-up, gave him the $1,500 purse, a first...
Sued. Frederick Henry Prince. 73, Boston banker, board chairman of Chicago's Union Stock Yards & Transit Co.; by Arthur H. Mason. 63, trainer and seller of polo ponies and hunters; for $50,000 damages on a charge that after a 1929 polo game at the Myopia Hunt Club in which Mason rode Prince off the ball, Prince, cursing, swatted Mason behind the left ear with his mallet...
...weeks ago appeared in the Press an appeal from Anthony J. Buttitta of Durham, N. C. for the names & addresses of subscribers to Contempo, a literary magazine (TIME, Jan. 2). Mr. Buttitta said he had moved Contempo from Chapel Hill, N. C., had lost the subscription list in transit. Last week a frantic protest was issued by Milton A. Abernethy of Chapel Hill who said he was the sole proprietor of Contempo; that it had not been moved anywhere; that the one & only subscription list was safe in Chapel Hill; that Mr. Buttitta, onetime co-publisher, was a humbug...
Thus did Nathan Leonard Amster bring a new entry to the crowded field of interests which are jockeying for position in New York City's plans for unification of all its transit lines (TIME. Sept. 5). The ousted directors represented I. R. T., the subway system which leased all Manhattan Railway's elevated lines for 999 years, and pledged itself to pay interest & dividends on Manhattan securities. When I. R. T. was thrown into receivership, it was an open secret that the chief purpose of the receivership was to break the unprofitable lease of the El. Insurgent Amster...