Word: champion
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Vidal and Treasury-man Roberts, two former football stars. Here also Jim Farley rode a horse for the first time, he said, in his life, getting on with some difficulty while a secretary held his watch. Will Rogers rode the same horse, Edna May's King, retired undefeated champion stud of the world, a horse that Morrison says he paid $40,000 for and refused...
...that the real basis of the loans be character and past earning power, thus qualifying a vast number of unemployed, and that each branch have an employment agency. Planner Morris, who collects American antiques and champion Leghorn chickens, was simply advocating what few serious economists have dared to suggest: opening the till of government credit to the consumer. Every single governmental attempt to prime the business pump throughout four years of Depression has been one indirect method or another of easing credit to producers. The Governor of Georgia urged that Army planes scatter greenbacks over the land but no serious...
...247th victory broke the English record of 246 winners ridden in 1885 by Fred Archer. He has two months left to beat the world's record of 338 winners ridden in 1884 by U. S. Jockey Walter Miller. Westrope's closest competitor is Gordon Richards, champion jockey of England, who last week equalled the English record, at Hurst Park, London...
...this year, the Varsity swimming team will need a great deal of building up before it is ready to start the season at the Bowdoin Meet on Friday, December 15, Coach Harold S. Ulen announced yesterday. Benton S. Wood '33, of Honolulu, last year's intercollegiate champion in the "440" and Robert D. Fallon '33, from Exeter Academy, who placed third in the 50 and 100-meter of the intercollegiates, were the mainstays of the team in free-style last year and this year's group as yet shows no one to replace them in height, weight, or experience...
...backstroke the team is well fortified with an intercollegiate champion, Captain Edward E. Stowell '34, and Charles N. Breed, Jr. '36, Freshman captain last year. Coming as experienced hands, too, are Anderson C. Dearing, Jr. '34, in breast-stroke; Charles L. Jack '35, best man last year in the "440"; Edward C. Devereux, Jr. '34, in the "220"; and Howard S. Bowen '35, in diving. In this last field there is some excellent Sophomore material...