Word: mastered
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...semiweekly publications, 20 or more national magazines. The A. B. M. P. F. was incorporated last January. During the summer it started to raise $10,000,000 for Dry propaganda. Its advisory committee was then known to include such believers in Prohibition as Chainstoreman James Cash Penney, National Grange Master Louis John Taber, Authors Zane Grey and Zona Gale. Last week the organization announced a total membership of more than 2,000 businessmen scattered over 46 states. Its program had been endorsed by Chain Publisher Frank Ernest Gannett. Publisher Harry Chandler of the Los Angeles Times, Publisher William Hutchinson Cowles...
...London. Married. John Ringling art collector, railroad man, head of Ringling Bros. Barnum & Bailey Circus, last of the five brothers; and a Mrs. Emily Haag Buck of Manhattan; in Jersey City. Best man: President Thomas Nesbitt McCarter of Public Service Corp. of New Jersey. Appointed. Capt. Albert B. Randall, master of S. S. George Washington: to be master of S. S. Leviathan and commodore of United States Lines' fleet succeeding Commodore Harold A. Cunningham, retiring; Capt. George Fried, master of S. S. America, to be master of S. S. George Washington. Four-days after Captain Randall's elevation...
...hunting you can only be glad if some tycoonish friend bought and bestowed on you this book. Designed and printed by famed Typographer D. B. Updike, illustrated with old prints, engravings, modern drawings, with Forewords by Poet Laureate John Masefield, Edgar Astley Milne (the "sporting parson," co-Master of the Cattislock Hunt, Dorset, England), As Hounds Ran is as complete and readable an anthology of the sport as you could wish...
...latest, long excerpts from Masefield's Reynard the Fox. In between you will find many a roaring song, piece of horsey wisdom, oldport reminiscence, shrewd talk to mull over. The U. S. is represented as well as England, from George Washington to the late Major William Austin Wadsworth, Master of the Genesee Valley Hounds. One of the best bits is from Major Wadsworth's A Bible: "Although you may be convinced that it improves wheat to ride over it, the opinion is not diffused or popular, and the fact that some fool has gone ahead is no excuse...
...late Tycoon Henry Lee Higginson (founder of Boston's famed Lee, Higginson & Co.) is a U. S. citizen and owns a large place in South Lincoln, Mass., but shares the Mastership of the Cattistock Hunt with Parson Milne. He is at present the only U. S. Master of an English hunt. A fox-hunting enthusiast, he has done much to further the sport in the U. S., where he says it is "certainly on the increase." He is president of the Master of Fox Hounds Association of America...