Word: culbertson
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Wilbur Cherrier Whitehead is not the only famed bridge professional. There are also Mr. and Mrs. Ely Culbertson,* Milton C. Work, Sidney S. Lenz, E. V. Shepard. They are Whitehead's friends, not his rivals. They call him "Whitey." His position is authoritative. Other experts have at times disowned or retracted strategies they once commenced. Not Whitehead. He is conservative, a grandfather. He comes from Columbus, used to be president of Simplex Automobile Co. when it made cars you could not wear out. The word "Simplex" was cut deep on a triangle of brass on the blunt bonnet...
...Cabinet, "West Case"). The list, fairly certain to be approved in toto, included Utah's J. Reuben Clark, Under Secretary of State; Tennessee's H. Theodore Tate, Treasurer of the U. S.; Ohio's John W. Pole to be Comptroller of Currency; William S. Culbertson of Kansas, Ambassador to Chile; also five Ministers, a Farm Loan Board man, a dozen postmasters...
Miffed at what they called Attorney Culbertson's "dirty political trick," the Sheriffs moved their convention across Lake Erie to Port Dover, in southeastern Ontario. There the orgy continued...
...description given by District Attorney Stuart Culbertson of Meadville, Pa., of the pitch at which he found the convention of the Pennsylvania State Sheriffs' Association, in a hotel at Conneaut Lake...
...abdicated Crown Prince Carol to discredit his son, King Mihai, achieved such success, last year, that several worried Rumanian aristocrats hurried for authentic information to one of the few men who was generally trusted and esteemed in intriguing, scandalmongering Bucharest-a man from Emporia, Kan., William Smith Culbertson, then Minister to Rumania, now Ambassador to Chile. The Rumanians knew that King Mihai had several times been brought to play in the U. S. Legation garden with Mr. Culbertson's small daughters (whom reckless correspondents described as "sons" on one such occasion). The American Minister, having addressed His Majesty...