Word: tyres
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When first edition copies of Britannia were flipped open, the advertisement-getting potency of Inveresk Ltd. was apparent. Of the 96 pages some 32 had been sold for £200 ($970) a page, and £250 ($1,200) for the back cover, on which a Dunlop tyre was proclaimed "As British as Britannia...
Democrats announced that Robert Tyre Jones Jr., four-time amateur golf champion of the U. S., twice open champion of the U. S., three-time Southern champion, twice open champion of Britain, etc. etc., would campaign for Nominee Smith...
...British open was won by Walter Hagen in 1922, 1924, 1928; by Robert Tyre Jones Jr., in 1926, 1927; by James ("Long Jim") Barnes in 1925. The British amateur was won by the late Walter J. Travis in 1904, not again by an American until Jesse Sweetser...
...Robert Tyre Jones Jr., Jesse Holman Jones, Ambassador von Prittwitz of Germany, John Philip Sousa, President Simmons of the New York Stock Exchange, President Sloan of General Motors, President Coolidge of the U. S. A. and many another personage attended the spring dinner and prank-night of the Gridiron Club (Washington news-gatherers). Politics past, present and future were "horsed" as usual. President Coolidge stayed to the end and made a speech which, under the Gridiron Club's huddle system, might not be repeated or reported...
...Robert Tyre Jones Jr., in business in Atlanta with his father, entered suit on behalf of his client, Grover Hartley, onetime catcher of the Giants, against the Georgia Railroad for $25,000, saying that a flagman lurching through the aisle of the car stepped on Hartley...