Word: choses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...more brilliant than Sande. Col. Edward Riley Bradley, who had two horses entered last week, told Fator to choose the one he wanted to ride. Fator, who had won $3,000,000 for various owners and won every important U. S. race except the Derby and the Belmont Stakes, chose Brother Joe. Burgoo King, a horse that most of Louisville liked better, he turned over to 19-year-old Eugene James, a jockey who was bred in Louisville and made a sensation last season, his first...
Sirs: TIME MAY SECOND STATES IN ERROR MAJOR GENERAL SMITH TO HEAD MILITARY DEPARTMENT UNIVERSITY OF THE SOUTH STOP HE CHOSE TO BE SUPERINTENDENT OF SEWANEE MILITARY ACADEMY A PREPARATORY SCHOOL RUN UPON A MILITARY BASIS . . . STOP ACADEMY AND UNIVERSITY ARE CONNECTED BUT LARGELY THROUGH FINANCIAL ADMINISTRATORS. . . . JAMES M. MAXON...
Boost & Beneficiaries, Free to pick and claw as it chose, the House consented to a general 11 % cut in the Federal payroll but only after boosting the minimum wage exemption from $1,000 to $2,500.* Packed in the galleries were the embattled beneficiaries of this increased exemption, Government clerks who clapped and cheered with delight. President Hoover's alternative plan of enforced furloughs staggered through the year was summarily rejected by the House. All salaries of the Federal Reserve Board, the Interstate Commerce Commission, the Farm Board, the Reconstruction Finance Corp., Veterans' Administration and Tariff Commission were reduced...
Because five cents used to be the price of a good glass of beer and because there are more loose nickels than dimes in present-day pockets, Editor Warren B. Cody chose that price last week for his new magazine Beer. No dilly-dallyer, Beer goes straight to the point: the cover shows an unmistakable glass of foaming lager on a red background. Its slogan shouts WE WANT BEER! Its publishers are housed in the same building with the New York headquarters of the We Want Beer Association Inc. A score of thirsty articles and beer-slopped cartoons attest...
...After a table-pounding, all day session in Chicago, a sub-committee of 23 Democratic National Committeemen chose Senator Alben William Barkley of Kentucky, Roosevelt supporter, to be keynoter at the national convention. Jouett Shouse, rival for the position, was recommended for convention chairmanship...