Word: ward
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sharing Owner Woodward's joy, as he accepted the gold trophy (and $46.000) was his trainer, 65-year-old Jim Fitzsimmons, who had saddled both Mr. Wood ward's previous Derby winners. To "Mr. Fitz," as he is known to all racing folk, went 10% of the prize money. Another 10% went to Jockey Jimmy Stout, who had won his first Kentucky Derby al though he had ridden a favorite twice be fore. An hour later, while Louisville toasted Johnstown as another War Admiral, another Exterminator, another Man o' War, the big bay received his reward: three...
...ordinary blow, it was the wildest in the memory of any New Englander. Having washed a good deal of Watch Hill away, it tossed garages and outbuildings into the air, snapped off church steeples, huffed houses down, crippled the power lines, blew in, among others, the windows at Montgomery Ward & Co.'s store on Canal Street...
Thomas V. Healey, Sherman Hoar, Ward M. Hussey, William C. Hurtt, Paul E. Illman, Jr., Bartow Kelley, Robert A. Krancer, James D. Lightbody, Jr., Charles D. Lutz, Jr., Torbert H. Macdonald, Stephen L. Madey, Howard P. Mendel, August R. Meyer, George S. Olive, Jr., Peter E. Pratt, Thomas H. E. Quimby, Edward C. K. Read, Edward G. Robinson...
Mail Order. Another pair of high earn ers were Sears, Roebuck and Montgomery Ward. Both mail-order houses now obtain 50 to 60% of their sales as department stores. Although department store sales in general are running barely ahead of last year, chain groceries about 5% higher, Sears and Montgomery Ward were 20% ahead of 1938 in April. On this increase in volume, Sears' Chairman Robert E. Wood (who plays along with the New Deal) estimates his company will more than double the $7,000,000 profits earned in the 1938 first quarter; Montgomery Ward's Chairman Sewell...
...sundry vices has been the biggest dope trade in any U. S. city. U. S. Narcotics Commissioner Harry Jacob Anslinger suddenly appeared in Kansas City, where his men have been quietly tracking dope merchants for nearly two years, and last week they arrested a Pendergast policeman, a Pendergast ward heeler, five lesser characters...