Word: dithers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When, after 25 years, betting at race tracks was legalized in California last year, sportsmen all over the State were in a dither to start a track. Cineman Hal Roach (Our Gang Comedies), who plays better polo than most of his confreres, wanted one near Los Angeles. Dr. Charles H. Strub, onetime dentist who made his fortune with a chain of painless extraction parlors and later owned the San Francisco baseball club, wanted one at San Francisco. But onetime Newsboy William P. Kyne got ahead of him with Bay Meadows at San Mateo, which last week ended its successful first...
...Franklin Roosevelt's discomfiture, Nominee Sinclair, in a dither of haste to get into the spotlight, wired him asking for an interview as soon as possible. There is plenty of precedent for a President keeping on the fence in a pre-primary campaign, but for him to deny his countenance to an actual nominee of his own party is almost unprecedented. Yet to shake Upton Sinclair's hand in welcome at Hyde Park would have tended to confirm Senator Hastings' inference. With the best grace
...more prizes for the stable this spring. Both the Belmont Stakes ($60,000 added) and the American Derby ($25,000 added) at Chicago will be run June 9. High Quest is entered in the Belmont Stakes, Cavalcade in the American Derby. Last week Trainer Smith was in a dither, did not see how he "could be in two places at once," thought he would stay with High Quest who, although he will not admit it, is his favorite of Brookmeade's flashy pair of 3-year-olds...
Distillers Co., Ltd., Britain's monster whiskey trust, has kept U. S. liquormen in a dither all summer. Its dozens of brands include most of the best known Scotch whiskeys and the world's leading gin-Gordon's. Like Bacardi, Johnny Walker, John Haig, White Horse, Dewar's, etc. are probably more widely known in the U. S. today (through faked labels) than they were before Prohibition. Two D.C.L. representatives came to Manhattan early last spring, spent several months and thousands of dollars on surveys of potential business. Wined & dined by nearly every U. S. liquorman...
...announcement. 3) A suggestion (as coming from President Roosevelt) that the corporations and large landowners might legally be compelled to release a part of their holdings to the farmers for the planting of food crops. This last sensational item of its New Deal threw Puerto Rico into a dither of excitement...