Word: gate
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...public reception which followed was, as in the past four years, John W. Hunefeld, Washington house painter (TIME, Jan. 12, 1931). Painter Hunefeld almost lost first-place distinction this year. He was disappointed to find three Government clerks and a 14-year-old boy waiting at the west gate of the White House grounds when he arrived at 7 a. m. They lost their places, however, when President Hoover had them invited in for bacon-&-eggs, gave them a quick handshake on his return from a game of medicine ball...
...Ludwig crashed the Stalin gate by rushing to Moscow as the representative of Germany's most potent daily, the Berliner Tageblatt. Shrewdly Tageblatt had raised a rumpus about an innocuous pact of non-aggression now being negotiated between Russia and Poland. Did that mean the end of Russo-German friendship? Did it mean Russian support for the Treaty of Versailles and the Polish Corridor? Germany must know! Stalin must speak! ? such was the smart Tageblatt-Ludwig gate-crashing approach. Stalin spoke...
...year, is the richest-$150,000 -horse race in the world. James Nugent Crofton barked his announcement sadly last week. "There's no longer any use of our trying to kid ourselves. . . . Shortage of money has been apparent. . . . The announcement that the Mexican Government would increase taxes on gate receipts was the final blow. . . ." Agua Caliente's racing deficit since the season started a month...
...George Kelly of Philadelphia, nephew of Playwright George Kelly who won the Pulitzer Prize in 1925. Greenleaf's victory -126 to 119-gave him the championship prize of $1,200, in addition to his salary of $6,000 for three weeks' play, and one-sixth of the gate receipts...
Football was almost over in the Midwest. Officials of the Big Ten added up gate receipts, found them lower by 10% than last year. Nebraska, Big Six champion, played a charity game, improved by the presence of six bands, against Colorado Aggies and won it, with three touchdowns in the last quarter...