Word: champion
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Speaking from the portico of white-pillared Monticello on a hilltop five miles out of Charlottesville, he did not even recall that Thomas Jefferson had been the Founder of the Democratic Party, praised him instead as the champion of freedom. Only the loftiest of allusions to the political present were there in the President's cry of the Founding Fathers: ''Theirs were not the gods of things as they were, but the gods of things as they ought to be. They used new means and new models to build new structures." Nor could any but the rudest...
...beat was scored by small Mills College in Oakland, Calif. To summer students Mills offered "Civilization, Literature and Politics," conducted in French by Novelist Jules Remains, "Verse Writing" by Poet William Rose Benét, tennis instruction by Hazel Hotchkiss Wightman, four-time U. S. Women's Singles champion...
Born. To Carnation Ormsby Butter King, 9. world champion milk cow, who last year produced 38,000 Ib. of milk, 1,750 Ib. of butter (TIME, Feb. 24); and Sir Inka May; mixed twins, their third set; at Carnation Farm, near Seattle, Wash...
...spectators at Ascot last week broke the first tradition. William Woodward's Omaha, 1935 U. S. champion three-year-old, failed by a nose to break the second. First prize went to Lord Stanley's filly, Quashed...
...35th annual convention of the American Guild of Banjoists, Mandolinists & Guitarists. Convention manager and official host was Chester William Gould, 36, a big, loud-voiced banjoist, organizer of the 50-piece Gould Mandolin Orchestra, which this week was to perform a Mexican Fantasia in costume, and of the champion Go-piece Gould Banjo Band, which was to render a new arrangement of Ravel's famed Bolero...