Word: vinson
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When vivacious Maribel Vinson, nine-time U. S. figure-skating champion, renounced her amateur status last autumn to tour the U. S. in a skating extravaganza called Gay Blades, the field she had overshadowed for so many years blossomed with new enthusiasm...
...title in 1925-26-27, that she went abroad last summer to study under Sonja Henie's skating instructor. Behind Miss Peppe came one representative from each of the three oldest U. S. figure-skating centres: Katherine Durbrow of Manhattan, Polly Blodgett of Boston (runner-up to Maribel Vinson last year) and Jane Vaughn of Philadelphia...
...blonde, naïve and nonchalant. Unlike petite Audrey Peppe, who at 6 learned the rudiments of figure skating under the tutelage of her famed aunt, Joan Tozzer is the only figure skater in her family. She learned her figures from Boston's Willie Frick, tutor of Maribel Vinson. Once a year, on Christmas Day, Joan Tozzer goes skating at the Boston Arena with her father, who cannot so much...
Carter Coal Co. of Coalwood, W. Va. is pleased with itself because it brought the suit which broke the original Guffey Coal Act in the Supreme Court. Carter Coal Co. is now out to duplicate this feat with the Guffey-Vinson Coal Act. This Act set up a seven-man national Bituminous Coal Commission in Washington, with the major purpose of creating minimum prices for soft coal. In a city where frustrated bickering is a fine art, the Bituminous Coal Commission set a new high before it finally produced its first set of minima two months ago (TIME...
...railroads at the expense of small consumers. Therefore, in setting up minima, the Commission arbitrarily raised the price of railroad coal to a level nearer that for small consumers. The A. A. R. protested through John Carson, consumers' counsel, whose job was specially created by the Guffey-Vinson Act to protect the consumers' interests. But the B. C. C. refused to reconsider its action. The A. A. R.'s success in court last week led many another coal buyer to bring similar petitions and it looked as if the whole minimum price schedule would have...