Word: californias
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bill as dictated by "bluff and jitterism." His new junior colleague, pretty David Worth Clark, 36, made a maiden speech telling the U. S. to mind its own business. Minnesota's heavy Lundeen talked darkly of Presidential secrets which would "stun" and "shock" the country if revealed. California's white-crowned Hiram Johnson, North Dakota...
...they never got Hearst farther than two unspectacular terms in the House. In 1922 Al Smith refused to run on the State Democratic ticket with him and at last Hearst knew he would never be President. And so after 27 years in the East he moved back to California and began to surround himself with a grandeur that no other private citizen has ever matched in U. S. history...
Five years ago winter horse racing was just an occasion for gambling. All the top-notch race horses in the U. S. spent the winter resting up for the spring meetings in Maryland and Kentucky. Only castoffs were sent to the winter tracks. But since the founding of California's Santa Anita Park and its attractive $50,000 Derby and $100,000 Handicap, winter racing has become classy...
...outdone by California, Florida's Hialeah Park followed suit three years ago with the inauguration of the Widener Challenge Cup race, a $50,000 handicap event named after its president, Joseph Early Widener. This year the Widener was scheduled for the same day as the Santa Anita Handicap. Last week these two rich handicaps brought the winter racing season to its climax...
Last week in the picture-postcard setting that makes California's Santa Anita Park the most beautiful race track in the U. S., 50,000 turf addicts gathered for the rich Santa Anita Derby, first of this year's three $50,000 races for three-year-olds.* With the exception of William Ziegler's elegant El Chico, No. 1 Glamor Horse of last year's juveniles, who was not permitted to make a public appearance so early in the season, practically all the top-crust three-year-olds were in the parade to the post. Favorite...