Word: sandwiches
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...train at 18, traded shots with Indians, turned down a bartender's job in Portland to set type for a weekly paper also called the Oregonian. His liquor-loving boss, Thomas J. Dryer, finally gave him the paper for back wages in 1860 and went off to the Sandwich Islands as a U. S. Commissioner. On Feb. 4, 1861, before he was 26, Pittock founded the daily Oregonian...
...Sandwiched between the Chesapeake & Ohio railroad properties and Alleghany Corp., which normally controls them, is a useless intermediary holding company, Chesapeake Corp. (originally the top holding company until the Van Sweringens added Alleghany in order to float more securities). Last week, at last, came the first move to take the cheese out of this stale Van Sweringen sandwich. Chesapeake Corp.'s directors authorized using $2,000,000 of its $7,349,134 earned surplus to cover such claims or liabilities as may arise when the company is dissolved. Concurrently they declared what may be the last regular Chesapeake Corp...
...British Open golf championship; defeating a predominantly British field; with a 72-hole score of 295, two strokes better than second-place Jim Adams of Scotland and three strokes better than the favorite, Defending Champion Henry Cotton, considered by many the world's No. 1 professional golfer; at Sandwich. To Brother Reggie went the distinction of being the first of the Whitcombes to win the Open...
Programmed by canny Conductor Koussevitzky between the First Symphony of Beethoven and the First Symphony of Sibelius, Composer Piston's magnum opus drew as many bravos as if it were the real meat in the sandwich. Though part of this enthusiasm may have come from a desire to see local Harvard Professor Piston make good, solemn critics were agreed that his symphony was one of the most individual and stirring works of its kind by a U. S. composer. Praised were its skillful instrumentation and the rugged climax of its final movement. Noted also was an emotional juiciness hitherto...
Continuing his discussion of some aspects of American naval policy, Baxter warned that "they can't get us by land, but they can get us by air." Against this danger he advocated a ring of defense extending from the Aleutian Islands, through the Sandwich Islands and Samoa to the Panama Canal Zone...