Word: earl
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last year Stagehand finished his two-year-old season a maiden (a horse that has never won a race). But this winter, in the theatrical setting at Santa Anita, Stagehand blossomed into a star, won three races in a row. Racing fans all knew that the incomparable Earl Sande, most famed jockey of modern times, was Maxwell Howard's trainer. Because Earl Sande in his riding days had won 967 races (including three Kentucky Derbies and five Belmont Stakes), earned $3,000,000 for his employers, and had the reputation of being able to do more with a horse...
...Trainer Sande, a familiar little figure in unfamiliar clothes, rushed over to Stagehand, plopped a kiss on his nose and led him back to the winner's circle, the jampacked grandstands roared. Looking a little ill at ease without his whip, 39-year-old Earl Sande tipped his hat and grinned. It was his first major victory* in seven years as a trainer...
...Communist Party. The Daily Worker appealed to patriotic sentiment by printing a picture of a capitalistic U. S. flag riddled by General Franco's bombers as it flew over Barcelona's Socony-Vacuum Oil Co. building. Meantime the two tiptop U. S. Communists, William Z. Foster and Earl Browder, had returned to Manhattan from Moscow, still talking collective security, which means support of Capitalist Franklin Roosevelt. Mr. Browder, who holds down the same official job in the U. S. as Mr. Stalin in Russia-General Secretary of the Party-arrived home just in time to welcome a four...
Divorced. Charles Guy Fulke Greville, Earl of Warwick, 27, frustrated cinemactor ("Michael Brooke"); from his second cousin & first wife, Rose Bingham; in London...
Back to Europe last week-as secretively as they had arrived in the U. S. two weeks before-sailed the Earl of Dudley and a committee representing Europe's Steel Cartel. Though no one admitted it, everybody knew that the Earl and his friends had visited the U. S. in an attempt to get U. S. steel companies to join the cartel or at least to stop undercutting its prices abroad (TIME, Feb. 14). Last week no one in authority would yet admit that anything had happened, but the Earl's speedy departure indicated that an understanding...