Word: allison
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...time the litigation was scheduled to appear in Manhattan, President Fish and the Omaha bondholders had come to terms. Meanwhile a third investors' faction headed by Allison L. Bayles, Manhattan investment banker, and counseled by Attorney Bruce Tuttle, had appeared. Its announced objective: To do away with W. N. U.'s present management, bring in as head man John Holliday Perry, president of American Press Association, country weekly advertising representatives. Counting noses for this fight, President Fish said he had 1,000 of the 1,200 bondholders on his side. Unable to get even a list of bondholders...
...record in international sport is neither long nor glorious. At tennis, it consists of the annual beating which the Mexican Davis Cup team receives from the U. S. Last week the four young Mexicans selected to take part in this ceremony arrived in Houston, Tex. to tackle Wilmer Allison, John Van Ryn, Donald Budge and Bryan ("Bitsy") Grant...
...freshman at the University of Mexico and his country's newest star, made Grant scramble but the best he got was one set to Grant's three. Esteban Reyes, nicknamed "Pajaro" (Bird), Mexico's No. 1, got five games in three sets against Budge. Next day, Allison played 18 holes of near-par golf, joined his partner Van Ryn to run through Flavio Martinez and Marco Antonio Mestre 6-0, 6-2, went back to the links for another nine holes which he started with a birdie. The series became a clean sweep the following day when...
...tournament sooner than ever. Australia, entered in the American instead of the European zone, will play the U. S. in Philadelphia May 30, with the advantage of a full summer of practice against players who may not have had time to round into mid-season form. Wilmer Allison, acting U. S. captain, last week made the confident predictions which are as standardized a part of preliminary Davis Cup competition as the victory over Mexico: "If we can get by Australia, our prospects will be excellent. . . . This can easily be our year...
...Senate. When he died in 1915 he left a fortune of over $30,000,000 largely made out of banking, sugar, rubber, public utilities, tractions. But Nelson Aldrich was also one of the most potent men ever to enter the Senate. With Platt of Connecticut, Spooner of Wisconsin and Allison of Iowa, he practically ran the country from 1897 to 1905 when the quartet broke publicly with Roosevelt I. In 1909, as chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, he was co-author of the notorious Payne-Aldrich Tariff Act which cost the Republicans the House of Representatives...