Word: autumn
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...White House to the Naval Hospital while the President returned to his work, appointed Raymond Bartlett Stevens of New Hampshire, one-time adviser to the Siamese Government, a member of the Tariff Commission; addressed the State directors of National Youth Administration; wrote Senator Harrison asking him during the autumn to see if anything could be done about reviving NRA; appointed the new Social Security and Labor Relations Boards...
...earned $27,000, while Discovery has been earning $64,000. Guy McKinney, trotting's biggest money win ner for a single season, won $60,000 in 1926, compared to Gallant Fox's $308.000 in 1930. At the Fasig-Tipton Old Glory sales of yearling trotters held each autumn in New York City, prices average about one half those at the Fasig-Tipton yearling sales at Saratoga. On the other hand, until Sun Beau passed her record in 1931, the biggest money-winning horse in history was Goldsmith Maid, a trotter who, in 123 races from...
Such commercial notices announcing the arrival of out-of-town buyers last week marched down column after column of the business pages of the august New York Times. In full swing and busier than usual was the autumn buying season. On the Times' front page appeared this headline: ARRIVAL OF BUYERS SETS 6-YEAR JULY RECORD. This fact the Times alone among all New York dailies was capable of proving because it is the only newspaper outside the trade which prints without charge buyers' listings. According to the Times, business was so active that no less than...
...long and far from simple annals of wrestling, few careers are more remarkable than that of a 224-lb. oddity from Ballydehob, County Cork, named Danno O'Mahoney. A wrestling scout in Dublin on other business last autumn discovered O'Mahoney serving as a soldier in the Free State Army, brought him to the U. S., enlisted him as a member of the famed troupe of professional wrestlers...
...Frenchman, Collector Charbneau was born in Mount Clemens 51 years ago, spent his childhood peddling his father's vegetables and acting as bellboy in a local hotel. The autumn of 1898 found him mascot of the Baltimore ball team during the World Series of the 'go's against Boston. Two years later he enlisted in the U. S. Navy, thus made his way to the Paris exposition of 1900. Pride of that exposition was the tallest thing in the world, M. Eiffel's tower. Jules Charbneau's taste ran in the opposite direction. He bought...