Word: broking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...than Jockey Sande's record of $3,034,858. And by retiring this year he will cut himself off from another record: 46 years of jockeying, set by Great Britain's John Osborne. As a public figure, however, Steve Donoghue has equaled any of them. When he broke his leg during a race in 1930, King George V sent his personal best wishes for a quick recovery. Already well known to British cinema audiences, he appeared on the U. S. screen last spring in a Derby picture called Wings of the Morning, where his silks shone in Technicolor...
...Menow; the Champagne Stakes, last warm-up race for two-year-olds before the Belmont Futurity; at Belmont Park, N. Y. Mrs. Ethel Mars' Sky Larking, even-money favorite and generally rated the most promising two-year-old of the season, stumbled while leading the field, broke a leg and was destroyed...
...similar increase in world consumption this year would gobble most of the bumper crop. War is the chief threat, as was shown last week when Japan, best U. S. cotton customer, stopped buying it in order to conserve her gold. Brokers were quick to remember that cotton prices broke at the onset of the World War, then rose to a thumping 30? a lb. Hopes for increase in domestic consumption were dim last week. Anticipating labor troubles, cotton mills operated at capacity early this year. After the break in prices in July, they curtailed operation to reduce inventories. But sales...
Second question reporters wanted to ask John Roosevelt concerned Anne Lindsay Clark, debutante daughter of the late F. Haven Clark, Boston investment counsellor, who last April broke her engagement to Samuel Stevens Sands, grandson of Mrs. William K. Vanderbilt Jr. Last spring, Anne Clark went to Harvard's commencement with John Roosevelt. Last week, she was on hand at Hyde Park to welcome him home. Before reporters got a chance to ask him about the romance, he and Anne Clark set off to motor to Boston. John Roosevelt's ostensible business was to arrange for a room...
...bought elephant, horse and man one meal. Ingenious Trainer Cooper decided to start a circus of his own, set up on a vacant lot on U. S. Route 24, put Mena through her paces. Townspeople brought tomatoes, lettuce, carrots, hay. But Mena, growing impatient with her freedom, broke loose, lumbered off. Trainer Cooper, careening after her on his pinto pony and chased by screaming children, finally caught, her. After three more days of free meals in exchange for free shows. Mena's owner sent for them, booked them into the Indiana State Fair...