Word: tri
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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After winning the National championship, Doeg married, set to work on his father-in-law's Newark, N. J. Evening News, announced that he would probably play little tennis in 1931 except to defend his title at Forest Hills. Clifford Sutter last week was winning the Tri-State Tour- nament in Memphis, Tennessee. The other two, Shields and Wood, together with Henri Cochet; John Van Ryn; Jean Borotra, who airplaned back to Paris for business between matches; Bunny Austin, balloon-trousered British Davis Cup player; George Lyttleton Rogers, a big Irishman with a hooked nose; Jiro Satoh, the champion...
...California's outstanding citizens," was what San Francisco's Mayor James Rolph Jr. called James A. Talbot of Richfield Oil Co. in 1928. An outstanding act of Outstander Talbot had just been the offering of his private tri-motor airplane to Mayor Rolph and his visiting friend, Mayor James John Walker...
...Fokker tri-motors (35 in number) of the type in which Knute Kenneth Rockne and seven others crashed to death in Kansas six weeks ago (TIME, April 13) must be inspected by Department of Commerce agents before they can be restored to service. That inspection-a lengthy procedure involving removal of the plywood covering of the wings-must hereafter be undertaken regularly by the operators. The ailerons of the wings must be equipped with a counterbalance to make their manipulation easier...
...investment trust. But it did so with a difference which was typified by the man chosen to head it. He was Earle Bailie, who abandoned a promising law career in 1919 to enter finance and proved his astuteness so quickly in 1923 he was made a Seligman partner. The Tri-Continental directorship includes such important "outsiders" as Albert Henry Wiggin and Clarence Edward Groesbeck, president of Electric Bond & Share, but its management is distinctly from within. Its research staff is large and skilled, and Mr. Bailie places great faith in the "field trips" which his men take to survey business...
...went to Windsor last week to tea with George V and Queen Mary. The guard did not turn out, no Spanish royal standard flew from the castle flagstaff. That same afternoon the Republican tri-color?red, purple, yellow?floated for the first time over the Spanish embassy in London...