Word: win
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...inspector at the New York Customs Bureau. Last week he let smugglers know how dangerous life can be by shooting 299 out of a possible 300 to defend his individual championship. He also shot a 296 and two perfect 300s, led his five-man Bureau of Customs team to win the Morgenthau Trophy for the third year. Most of the shooting was done with .38-calibre revolvers with 4-in. barrels, slow and quick fire at 15 and 25 yards. In the round permitting .45-calibre guns with barrels up to 10 in., Inspector Echols was tied...
...Pittsburgh last week the sport market was booming. Citizens who did not know a bunt from a pop fly jabbered baseball and watched the box scores of the local Pirates, recently quoted odds-on favorites to win the National League pennant-something that has not come Pittsburgh's way since...
Little Miss Broadway (Twentieth Century-Fox) pits Shirley Temple's curls and dimples against the lengthy, dour countenance of Edna May Oliver. To win over a fitful Manhattan millionairess is child's play for Shirley, who has spent her precocious career winning over a variety of toughs, misanthropes, hard-hearted colonels and capricious sea captains...
...season. In 1930, Joe McCarthy (now manager of the New York Yankees) was replaced by Rogers Hornsby in the midst of a pennant tug of war. In 1932 Manager Hornsby (a $250,000 investment) was suddenly supplanted by First Baseman Charlie Grimm. Because Manager Grimm went on to win the pennant in 1932, Owner Wrigley last week had an excellent precedent to follow. Catcher Hartnett was the necessary spark plug...
...1920s. when shares sold as high as $90; Class B shares are now selling at about $1 each. What is more, in receiverships, debentures come before stock. So Floyd Odium's aces looked better than Howard Hopson's kings. In any case, Bill Douglas stands to win, for Floyd Odium hastened to say that he, for one, would not appeal any "death sentence" for U. P. & L. He thought it was "good economics apart from any statutory requirement...