Word: circuits
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...careful handling of the dynamite-packed TVA investigation in 1938 he was rewarded in 1939 with a judgeship in the Circuit Court of Appeals. There he might have stuck for a lifetime, wrapped in Biddle dignity. But when the opening came he dived off again to become Solicitor General...
Then there was Perpetual, owned and driven by foxy Doc Parshall, the Earl Sande of the sulky circuit. Perpetual, no great shakes as a two-year-old, had won three big stake races this summer (the Matron, the National and the Historic). But Doc's colt had recently come down with a fever, was seen stepping around the track wearing a jowl strap only an hour before the Big Race...
...Johnston of Charlotte, N.C. Bill Gallon, named after one of Johnston's cronies, was purchased as a yearling for $1,800, was top money-winner ($14,000) among the two-year-olds last year. This summer, the Southern colt had failed to win a race on the Grand Circuit. Nevertheless, the wise men of Goshen, with no Racing Form to guide them, figured that Bill Gallon was the horse to beat...
...giggling at his delirious brain child. He is fond of such tricks as introducing a kind of Latin double-talk for his eerier characters. Sample: Fora consumatio est ramus malin rite confedo saluero. The show was put on a coast-to-coast hookup after 17 weeks on a local circuit, and has a large and loyal following in the Pacific area...
...Mount Vernon, N.Y., a squirrel (Sciurus vulgaris) scampered across high-tension wires, caused a short circuit that broke a wire which fell on oil-soaked ties, starting a fire that held up traffic on the New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad for an hour...