Word: champs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Gunboat, Flotilla, First Mate, Flagship, Seaplane-these are the names of several of the progeny of Man o'War, one time race horse champ, who was retired in 1922. Nine of them (two-year-olds) will be eligible for competition during the 1924 season. Man o'War has 15 wives...
...British Amateur Champ...
...Columbus, Ohio, Senator Frank B. Willis of that state told of a visit he had made to Bowling Green, Mo. There, said he, was the grave of former Speaker Champ Clark, neglected; with his own penknife he cut away the weeds and in a speech " censured the people for neglecting the grave of one of the ablest men who ever sat in Congress...
Died. Joseph Wingate Folk, 53, former Governor of Missouri, of cerebral hemorrhage, in Manhattan. His aggressive record as Governor made him a candidate for the Demo-cratic nomination for the Presidency in 1912, but he withdrew in favor of the late Champ Clark...
...neighbors sometimes agree; four neighbors, very rarely. In 1911 the Liberals were in power in Canada, and W. S. Fielding, Minister of Finance in Sir Wilfrid Laurier's Ministry, negotiated a reciprocity tariff agreement with Secretary Knox of the Taft Administration. Champ Clark swung the Democrats of the House of Representatives for reciprocity. Thereby three neighbors came into agreement: the Republicans (U. S.), the Democrats (U. S.) and the Liberals (Canada). The Conservatives (Canada) were the fourth neighbor. They overturned the pudding-and the Laurier Cabinet-in a special election. At the end of twelve years' political vicissitudes...