Word: troy
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ness protective associations formed in the U. S. after the Civil War to keep Chinese laundrymen, restaurateurs, merchants, servants, etc. from molestation by competitors or the authorities of any race. The laundry business (fast becoming a Chinese monopoly in the U. S. until the advent of steam-machinery from Troy, N. Y.) and the others still function; so do the Tongs. They assure their members (besides a sort of racketeer protection) of legal and charitable support in time of trouble, and of fraternal intercourse. There are some 60,000 Chinese in the U. S. Most of them belong...
...opening of the Conklingville generating plant will furnish a mechanical connection between Niagara-Hudson and Consolidated just as Mr. Carlisle has furnished a personal connection. Part of the power here generated will be supplied by Niagara-Hudson to the district between Troy and Albany and the southern line of Columbia County; part by Consolidated to the district between Peekskill and New York City...
...yard dash:--(Three men to qualify in each heat). First heat--Won by Dyer (Stanford); second, Stevens (Dartmouth); third Kastler (Pennsylvania); fourth, Mason (Harvard); fifth, Hand (Princeton). Time--22 sec. Second heat--Won by Troy (Brown) second, Tolan (Michigan); third, Howell (Stanford); fourth, Hennessy (Harvard); fifth, Morin (Holy Cross), Time--21 6-10 sec. Finals--Won by Dyer (Stanford); second, Tolan (Michigan); third, Stevens (Dartmouth); fourth. Troy (Brown); fifth, Howell (Stanford), Time...
...Mutton 1 of Tyre, fled from her brother's tyranny and founded Carthage ("New City"). Hence she was called Dido ("The Fugitive"). She entertained Aeneas, runaway from Greek-destroyed Troy, before he went to Italy where his descendants founded the Roman Empire...
...business which his father left him and which made possible all the Brady donations to that Church. It was Anthony Nicholas Brady, father of Nicholas Frederic, who founded the Brady fortune, at one time among the greatest in the U. S. Anthony, born in Lille, France, went to Troy, N. Y., in 1857, worked first in the barber shop at Albany's old Delavan House. At 19 he started a tea store, soon opened branches. His first utility interest was acquiring stock in Albany Gas Light Co. A genius for consolidation, in comparatively short time he acquired control...