Word: circuit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Most sports have one or more Grand Old Men. Harness racing has dozens who jounce their old bones in old bright -varnished sulkies on Grand Circuit trotting tracks every summer. Grandest old man of trotting, until he died eight years ago, was Edward Franklin ("Pop'') Geers of Lebanon, Tenn., who won nearly $2,000,000 in prizes. Two more grand old men of trotting distinguished themselves last week, one in Ohio and one in New York, at Goshen where the Grand Circuit reached its peak in the Hambletonian Stakes, one-mile race named for the greatest...
...orchestra pit, the piano playing of their brother Chico. He had been touring the country as a piano player and wrestler. At Waukegan, Chico, Zeppo, Gummo and Groucho made their closest approach to an academic career in an act called "Fun in Hi-Skule." On the Sullivan-Considine circuit they toured with Charlie Chaplin, gave him good advice about taking a $100 weekly contract with the Keystone Cinema Company...
...Laudamus Te." President Eamon de Valera's journal, The Irish Press, urged the Irish to plant trees in commemoration of this event, "one of the greatest ... in Irish history." So that visitors might drink freely of Ireland's excellent whiskies and malt brews, all Irish Free State circuit judges were permitted by a "Eucharistic Congress Bill," to extend the hours of sale of alcoholic liquors, from June 18 to July...
...ground that it put autocratic powers in the hands of a small Washington group, the Federal Reserve Board. If there was to be currency inflation, the peppery little Virginian wanted it diffused throughout the land. If "governments" were to be turned into more currency, he wanted to short-circuit the Federal Reserve and hook the 7,600 national banks up directly with the Treasury and its Bureau of Engraving & Printing...
...York University Florence Ellinwood Allen, Ohio Supreme Court judge ....... LL.D. Marshall Stewart Brown, senior professor of New York University, dean of faculties since 1917 ...... Litt.D. Thomas Sovereign Gates, president of the University of Pennsylvania ...... LL.D. Martin Thomas Manton, senior judge of the U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals ...... LL.D. Ogden Livingston Mills, Secretary of the Treasury ...... LL.D. Cuthbert Winfred Pound, Chief Judge of the New York Court of Appeals ..... LL.D. Rev. Dr. Ralph Washington Sockman of the Madison Avenue Methodist Episcopal Church D.D. Isaac Newton Phelps Stokes, architect, historian of Manhattan Island. ..... Litt D. William Henry ("Popsy") Welch, Dean...