Word: fields
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...mishap of the McNutt homecoming occurred in San Francisco when he and his administrative assistant, Wayne Coy, asked for an Army plane to fly them as far as Denver. Three days later, when it was revealed that their pilot. Colonel Davenport Johnson, had been transferred from Hamilton Field to second in command at the Air Corps Technical School at Chanute Field, 111., the War Department maintained it was a "routine" change but reporters jumped to the fairly natural conclusion: that the Administration intended to snub Mr. McNutt...
...afternoon last week the 30 enlisted men and one officer, who make up the detachment, mounted their little ponies, and in their vivid blue, red-striped uniforms, with sabres flashing, pennants streaming, charged past in review before U. S. officers and guests at Peking's Breckinridge Field. It was their last review. With the Japanese patrolling the city, U. S. Army authorities decided to disband and dismount the Horse Marines, shunt half the personnel to Tientsin, transfer the remainder to other marine units...
...Santa Anita Derby, a $60,000 stake which would get top billing at any other U. S. race track. But at Santa Anita, where everything is colossal, it plays second fiddle to the $100,000 Santa Anita Handicap, grand finale of the 57-day meet. As the field of 15 three-year-olds paraded to the post, Sun Egret was the favorite and William du Font's Dauber had a large following; but hunch players and a few sentimentalists were betting on Stagehand, a shiny bay colt owned by Maxwell Howard of Dayton, Ohio...
...reputation of being able to do more with a horse than anyone else in the world, hunch money last week was going down fast on Sande-trained Stagehand. But seasoned railbirds figured that the Sande protege, a slow starter, would get into a jam in the crowded field...
When vivacious Maribel Vinson, nine-time U. S. figure-skating champion, renounced her amateur status last autumn to tour the U. S. in a skating extravaganza called Gay Blades, the field she had overshadowed for so many years blossomed with new enthusiasm...