Word: wrest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...year ago he rose in arms, attempted to wrest control of the company from his father's associates (among the most potent businessmen in Chicago), who bought a large stock interest by amicable agreement, took seats on the board, ran the company after John R.'s death. Mr. McCulloch. longtime friend of the family, ironed out the difficulties; John R. Jr. said it was all a misunderstanding. He did not receive, however, the voice in the management that he had expected, and last December when Mr. McCulloch resigned as chairman he had William Collins (who had come into...
Eliot defeated Kirkland, 5-0, in the B league of the inter-House squash tournament, thereby winning the B league title for the year. In an attempt to wrest the title from Eliot, Dunster defeated Lowell, 5-0, and came within two points of succeeding. In the B league matches, Adams defeated Phillips Brooks, 4-1, and Leverett won from Winthrop by default. In the C league, Lowell defeated Adams, 5-0, and Eliot defeated Winthrop, 5-0. Only one match was played in the Dunster-Kirkland match...
...Manhattan last week Mrs. Charles Carey Rumsey, daughter of the late great Banker-Railroader Edward Henry Hardman, announced that through her Co-operative Agricultural Organization Society she was about to send 50 farm-wise metropolitan families upstate to wrest their living from the land. If the project proved successful, she had some land of her own in Virginia to colonize with other jobless...
...Zemurray-Cutter feud is 20 years old. Victor Cutter was opening new tropical divisions for United Fruit. Samuel Zemurray, Polish-Jewish immigrant who out of his savings as a fruit jobber in New Orleans had formed Cuyamel Fruit & Steamship Co., was trying to wrest control of the Caribbean Sea from United. They clashed in Guatemala when each backed a different country in the dispute, not yet settled, over the Guatemalan-Honduras boundary line. They clashed in Honduras when United invaded the country Mr. Zemurray had made his own through a $200,000 revolution. Mr. Cutter, smooth-haired Dartmouth graduate...
Last September, Wrest Point and Annapolis agreed to disagree about football eligibility rules, scheduled a game for 1932. Equally unexpected last week was the news of another football reconciliation- between Princeton and Harvard, whose falling out in 1926 followed a game that Harvard thought was too rough, and a particularly rude issue of the Harvard Lampoon. Athletic Directors William J. Bingham of Harvard and Thurston J. Davies of Princeton issued a terse joint statement: "Arrangements have been completed for two football games between Harvard and Princeton, the first to be played in Cambridge on Nov. 3, 1934, the second...