Word: badminton
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Badminton. Before all these conditions had been revealed, Republican leaders in the State Legislature and Democratic Governor Franklin Delano Roosevelt began playing political badminton with suggestions that New York City be investigated. While Governor Roosevelt temporized, Republican U. S. Attorney Charles H. Tuttle, aspirant for the gubernatorial nomination next autumn, was busy. He it was who brought the Vause, Walsh and Ewald cases to light, leaving the public to draw the political inference. He it was who startled Mayor Walker into starting an "investigation" of his own last month, supervised by his Commissioner of Accounts, James A. Higgins...
...very casual presentation of exotic subject indicates how far aloof is The Sportsman's clientele from the mass of U. S. readers: "The Business of Cricking," "Badminton Takes Hold," "Alligators for Sport," "The Scientific Sport of Bird Banding," "In Praise of the Bilgeboard Scow." In the May issue, with a display of pride such as attends an epochal event, The Sportsman presents its "scoop": complete data and sail plans of Sir Thomas Lipton's challenging Shamrock V and the four U. S. contenders for the honor of defending the America's Cup in September-material never before...