Johnson died in and Lemon sold the team a year later to hotel and trucking executive Bob Short, who outbid a group headed by Bob Hope.

By the end of the season, Short had issued an ultimatum: unless someone was willing to buy the Senators for $ 12 million ( in comparison, the New York Yankees were sold in 1973 for $ 8. 8 million ), he would not proceed to renew the stadium lease and move the team elsewhere.

In 1898, Horace Short patented a design for a loudspeaker driven by compressed air ; he then sold the rights to Charles Parsons, who was issued several additional British patents before 1910.

The Lakers were sold to a group of investors led by Bob Short however.

# Short seller retains as profit the $ 200 difference ( minus borrowing fees ) between the price at which he sold the shares he borrowed and the lower price at which he was able to purchase the shares he returned.

# Short seller incurs as a loss the $ 1, 500 difference between the price at which he sold the shares he borrowed and the higher price at which he had to purchase the shares he returned ( plus borrowing fees ).

A landplane version of the S. 184 was also sold to the Royal Flying Corps as the Short Bomber.

Both " Short Fat Fannie " and " Bony Moronie " sold over one million copies, gaining gold discs.

De Savary sold the club to Ellis Short in 2003, for £ 23million.

The first post-James record, Step Up to the Microphone, sold well with the song " Entertaining Angels " winning the 1999 Dove for " Short Form Music Video of the Year ".

The original. 22 CB cartridge has the same case as the. 22 BB, but there are now low-power. 22 rounds sold as. 22 CB Short and. 22 CB Long which come in the more common. 22 rimfire cartridge cases.

WWTC was sold by the Short family to Christopher Dahl in 1990, and re-launched in May as the flagship of Radio AAHS, a new radio network which would primarily air children's music.

The album Short Bus was released on April 25, 1995 and it sold over one million copies and features Brian's work with the band.

In 1996 the Short Brothers sold the complete Shorland design to British Aerospace Australia.

Young West Coast rapper Too Short was picked up by Jive after his independently released Born to Mack sold over 50, 000 copies.

In 1957, the team was nearly sold to Kansas City interests who planned to relocate it there, before a local group helmed by businessman Bob Short purchased the team and kept it in Minneapolis.

September 1965 saw another team upheaval when Short sold the team to Canadian-American entrepreneur Jack Kent Cooke for $ 5 million.

Horace Camp sold the railroad to Charles W. French in 1903 and the name of the company changed to the Lake and River Railroad, a subsidiary of the Chicago Short Line Railway.

Though Ashburn and Roberts were gone, younger pitchers Art Mahaffey, Chris Short, and rookie Ray Culp ; veterans Jim Bunning and screwballer Jack Baldschun ; and fan favorites Cookie Rojas, Johnny Callison, and NL Rookie of the Year Richie Allen brought the team within a hairsbreadth of the World Series in 1964 after strong showings in 1962 and 1963.

The success though was brief, as Short borrowed most of the $ 9. 4 million he had use to pay for the team.

Short was especially receptive to an offer brought up by Arlington, Texas mayor Tom Vandergriff, who had been trying to obtain a Major League sports team to play in the Metroplex for over a decade.

During the 1960 offseason, the Lakers became the NBA's first West Coast team when owner Bob Short decided to move the team to Los Angeles.

By 1958 Short had become 80 % owner of the team by buying out his partners, but the team was floundering.

Short was forced to move the team to Los Angeles in 1960 ; the club had lost $ 60, 000 in the first half of the 1959 – 60 season alone.

When Short indicated that he might take the team to new rival league that was developing however, the owners held another vote that same day and allowed the relocation ( 8 – 0 ).

The first short to team Tweety and the cat, later named Sylvester, was 1947's Tweetie Pie, which won Warner Bros. its first Academy Award for Best Short Subject ( Cartoons ).

Short clips of Cartman introducing the starting lineup for the University of Colorado football team were featured during ABC's coverage of the 2007 match-up between the University of Colorado and the University of Nebraska.

SCTV's version featured a team of public television stars captained by William F. Buckley ( played by Flaherty ) vs. a team led by Carl Sagan ( played by Thomas ), with confrontations that included Fred Rogers of Mister Rogers's Neighborhood fame ( played by Short ) in a boxing match with chef Julia Child ( played by Candy ).

A perennial fixture on the English national team, Short made his international team debut in the Euroteams at age seventeen at Plovdiv 1983, and has represented England continuously ever since.

When Minneapolis Lakers owner Bob Short was permitted to move the Lakers to Los Angeles, Saperstein reacted by convincing National Alliance of Basketball Leagues ( NABL ) team owner Paul Cohen ( Tuck Tapers ) and Amateur Athletic Union ( AAU ) National Champion Cleveland Pipers owner George Steinbrenner to take the top NABL and AAU teams and players and form a rival league.

Dolman's brother, screenwriter / director Bob Dolman ( who served as a part of SCTV's Emmy-winning writing team alongside Short ), married their close friend and colleague Andrea Martin, also in 1980.

For the first time an all-girls team, from Torquay Grammar School for Girls also broke the record for successfully completing the 35 -, 45-and 55-mile events consecutively and with the same team members ( Tamsin Owen, Joyce Nie, Francesca Hill, Amelia Skerritt, Rebecca Stanley and Hannah Short ).

Nathaniel Short, Ryan Heins, and Isaac Kissi were with the team in 2009 and 2010, but of the three only Isaac Kissi was back in 2011.

The village's current premier sports team is the Short Mat Bowls club, who compete in many local competitions.

The team is a member of the New York-Penn League, a Class A Short Season league.

For example, Admiral Kimmel was not on a golf course on the morning of the attack ( he was planning to meet General Short for a regular game, but cancelled as news of the attack came in ), nor was he notified of the Japanese embassy leaving Washington, D. C., prior to the attack.

, the members of the Washington Township Committee are Mayor Kenneth Short ( 2012 ), Vice Mayor James Harmon ( 2011 ), David Kennedy ( 2013 ), James LiaBraaten ( 2013 ) and Bill Roehrich ( 2012 ).

One, from the North Branch Potomac River, across the mountain into Short Gap, also used later by George Washington when crossing the mountains, and the other coming in from Dan's Run over Valley Ridge.

This attempt was foiled by the Battle of Short Hills, which gave Washington time to retreat to a more secure position.

Category: Short stories by Washington Irving

* ( 1952 ) Famous Chinese Short Stories, retold by Lin Yutang, The John Day Book Company, reprinted 1952, Washington Square Press

Short versions of all the works in the season were broadcast on about 30 California, Oregon, Washington, Idaho and British Columbia radio stations, starting about 1941.

23 locations carried the Ralph Lauren Purple Label, including Atlanta, Beverly Hills, Boston, Charlotte, Washington DC, Chicago, Costa Mesa, Dallas, Denver, Honolulu, Houston, Las Vegas, Manhasset, New York, Palm Beach, Palo Alto, Philadelphia, Phoenix, San Diego, San Francisco, Short Hills, Montreal and Troy.

Short was ordered back to Washington, D. C. by Army Chief of Staff George C. Marshall in disgrace.

Of the lines held by the Oregon and Transcontinental, the most important was the Oregon Railway and Navigation Company, a line running east from Portland along the south bank of the Columbia River to a connection with the Union Pacific Railroad's Oregon Short Line at the confluence of the Columbia River and the Snake River near Wallula, Washington.

* January 21 – The Imperial Airways Short Empire flying boat Cavalier, tail number G-ADUU, flying from Port Washington, New York, to Bermuda with 13 people on board, ditches and sinks in the Atlantic Ocean southeast of New York City after icing causes its engines to fail.

* Short bio at Washington University, St. Louis

Major thoroughfares through the district include Washington Place ; Palms, Venice, Sawtelle, Inglewood, and Grand View Boulevards ; McLaughlin, Barrington, Short, and Centinela Avenues ; and Beethoven Street.

In 1792, President George Washington appointed Carmichael a commissioner plenipotentiary ( together with William Short ) to negotiate a treaty with Spain protecting American navigation rights to the Mississippi River.

Washington forwarded none of the raw intelligence it had, and little of its intelligence estimates ( after analysis ), to Hawaiian commanders, Admiral Husband E. Kimmel and General Walter C. Short.

Short reported to Washington he had increased his alert level ( but his earlier change in meaning for those levels was not understood in Washington and led to misunderstanding there about what he was really doing ).

Originally, the area that would become Short Hills was part of Springfield Township, Union County, New Jersey, and its eponymous hills are thought to have played a role in the movement of the Continental Army under George Washington during the Battle of Springfield.

It also performs crossover duty for travelers between Washington ( reached by Interstate 95 ) and southeastern Virginia ( reached by Interstate 64 ), and links many of Richmond's suburbs ( such as Short Pump, Mechanicsville, Highland Springs, Varina, and Hopewell ).

There used to be a railroad trestle between the two current bridges, built in about 1887 for the Annapolis and Baltimore Short Line Railroad ( which became part of the Washington, Baltimore and Annapolis Electric Railway ), that was removed after 1968 when it was declared unsafe.

Originally sung by Ethel Merman, it has been covered by performers including Frank Sinatra, Billie Holiday, Peggy Lee, Patti LuPone, Sutton Foster, Marlene Dietrich, Cesare Siepi, Dinah Washington, Bobby Short, Louis Armstrong, Erroll Garner, Ella Fitzgerald, Betty Carter, Diana Ross and The Supremes, Mary Martin, Anita O ` Day, Rosemary Clooney, Margaret Whiting, Django Reinhardt, Gary Shearston, Jamie Cullum, The Living End, Dolly Parton, Joan Morris, Max Roach, Shirley Bassey, Rod Stewart, The Gutter Twins, Lisa Ekdahl, Nana Mouskouri and Landau Eugene Murphy Jr.

* A Short History of Chinese Communism, University of Washington, 1964

* Short profile in the Washington Post

Other influential early interpreters of the Great American Songbook include Fred Astaire, Mildred Bailey, Tony Bennett, June Christy, Rosemary Clooney, Nat " King " Cole, Perry Como, Barbara Cook, Chris Connor, Bing Crosby, Vic Damone, Bobby Darin, Sammy Davis, Jr., Doris Day, Blossom Dearie, Billy Eckstine, Alice Faye, Helen Forrest, The Four Freshmen, Judy Garland, Eydie Gorme, Johnny Hartman, Dick Haymes, Billie Holiday, Lena Horne, Joni James, Jack Jones, Al Jolson, Cleo Laine, Frankie Laine, Steve Lawrence, Peggy Lee, Julie London, Dean Martin, Tony Martin, Johnny Mathis, Carmen McRae, Mabel Mercer, Helen Merrill, Anita O ' Day, Patti Page, Dinah Shore, Bobby Short, Nina Simone, Frank Sinatra, Keely Smith, Kay Starr, Jo Stafford, Barbra Streisand ( particularly in her earlier work ), Maxine Sullivan, Mel Tormé, Sarah Vaughan, Dinah Washington, Ethel Waters, Margaret Whiting, Andy Williams, Joe Williams and Nancy Wilson.