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Word: runners (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Each voter may check two names on the list of candidates; the nominee receiving the greatest number of votes will gain the Presidency, while the runner-up will become vice-President. The nominees are: William H. Daughaday, Langdon B. Gilkey, Robert J. Glaser, Nelson Miles, Thomas H. E. Quimby, Joseph S. Stern, Jr., and Benjamin Wilcox...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PBH To Elect President and Vice-President | 3/2/1939 | See Source »

Princeton nosed Harvard out of the intercollegiate squash championship Saturday as Stanley Pearson, Jr. star tiger racquetman, downed the Crimson runner-up, Kim Canavarro by one point in the Hemenway gymnasium...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PEARSON TAKES SQUASH TITLE | 2/27/1939 | See Source »

Nine years later, when old John Blair was laid in his grave, a 15-year-old stripling named Hearn Waters Streat went to work for Blair & Co. as a runner. While Blair & Co. built up a reputation as the first firm to make equipment trust certificates a safe investment, and as co-financiers of Western Pacific, Missouri Pacific and many a big industrial concern like Texas Co., genial Hearn Streat moved up through the ranks. He became a junior partner in 1920, same year Blair absorbed William Salomon & Co. In 1929, when Blair merged with the security affiliate of Bank...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MONEY & BANKING: Street's Streat | 1/30/1939 | See Source »

Indicted at Hanover Courthouse, Va. as a hit-&-runner, ex-Ambassador (to Germany) William E. Dodd pleaded innocence, said he didn't know his car struck and injured 4-year-old Negro Gloria Grimes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jan. 23, 1939 | 1/23/1939 | See Source »

...First National Bank for the first time in 74 years had no Baker on its payroll. Last week George Fisher Baker 3rd, 23, returned from a round-the-world honeymoon to remedy that situation. He went to work at No. 2 Wall Street-as a runner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MONEY & BANKING: Baker's Boy | 1/16/1939 | See Source »

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