Word: cottonman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...crowd put their dollars down on Bill Gallon, a brown colt owned by a comparative newcomer to harness racing, Cottonman R. Horace 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...
...Among names talked of for his successor as RFC chairman Cottonman Will Clayton, under Secretary of Commerce Wayne Chatfield Taylor, Jesse Jones himself...