Word: forrestal
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Olympic Hurdler Forrest Towns had been doing training camp work there to make up University of Georgia credits he lost last summer when he went to Berlin. A track meet was scheduled for Visitors Day, and Hurdler Towns, a fine all-round athlete, was expected to dominate it.* Admittedly he could beat any man at his specialty. Question was: could he beat a horse? Forthwith he was matched against Tommy Roberts, a prize cavalry horse in the light hunter (jumping) class. U. S. Army qualifications for such a horse : must be sound, five years old, 15 hands high. Distance...
...markets," said Mr. Clarke, "but it will not permit them to be cut within its own trade area. ... If this is not an acceptance by R. H. Macy & Co. of the principle of price maintenance within its own trading area, I certainly wish Mr. Ralph Straus or Mr. Q. Forrest Walker, Macy's economist, would explain what...
...Near Forrest City, some 160 mi. from Hot Springs, there was a rude interruption. In the eyes of an approaching conductor, as well as of the Arkansas law, which provides fines for trainmen who neglect to separate Negroes from whites, Congressman Mitchell was just another Negro. The conductor ordered him to take his bags and get up to the Jim Crow car behind the baggage car. He protested, showed his ticket, pointed to a number of unoccupied sections. Vacancies or no vacancies, the conductor informed him, the only place he or any Negro could ride in Arkansas was second-class...
Before Richard Whiting and his Eastern ways had time to turn the whole county into a mollycoddle community, the Civil War gave the men of Phinizy County a real outlet. Those who did not fight with Forrest fought with Morgan. Even after the War petered out, some of them had not had their bellyful. When Lafe Potter ran off with Mersery Pillow, five of the Pillow clan went to get her back. When the shooting was over Lafe turned to his bride and said casually: "I got four of the bastards." Said Mersery: "I'm glad...
...MARSHALL FORREST...