Word: william
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Belair. One of the few large U. S. racing establishments that annually show a profit at the end of the year, William Woodward's Belair Stud is conducted with the same efficiency that developed the Hanover National Bank into the huge Central Hanover Bank & Trust. Belair is itself a fairly big business. It represents an investment of perhaps $1,000,000 and spreads over four plants. The horses are born in Kentucky, raised in Maryland, groomed for their racing careers on Long Island (or Newmarket), retired to stud in Kentucky...
Horse Lover. So great is William Woodward's love for horses that he has oil paintings made of all his great racers, has prints made from them for Christmas presents. So horse-minded is he that when his wife, one of Baltimore's famed Cryder triplets, bore him a son after four daughters, he wired his friends: "Fine colt born this morning." Sometimes he names horses after his very good friends. One year he had two especially fine colts. One he named Sir Ashley, after Sir Ashley Sparks, U. S. resident director of the Cunard Line. The other he named...
Although his fortune is estimated at well above $5,000,000, there is no swish to William Woodward. He owns no marble palace, no yacht, no private railroad car. He has four homes (Manhattan town house, Long Island country place, Newport cottage, Maryland farm) but none of them is pretentious. His four daughters, beauteous like their mother, were never advertised as Glamor Girls, had no noisy coming-out parties. His only son sails a 15-foot boat on Long Island Sound?and when Father Woodward wants to go yachting he sails the little...
...member of William Woodward's family shares his fetish for horses. They are always on deck for the big races (Mr. Woodward sometimes regrets that his box is not big enough to hold them all), but when it comes to rock-bottom horse talk, William Woodward's best crony is the man who has trained his horses for 16 years, big, moonfaced, 65-year-old James Edward Fitzsimmons...
...work. Broadcasting-Broadcast Advertising, radio's authoritative trade journal, observed: "He certainly was not lacking in courage, and no one questions his sincerity, though many in radio have not seen eye to eye with him on the majority of his proposed 'reforms.' But ... his selection of William J. Dempsey as general counsel has proved a boon to the efficiency...