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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Everyone who is really for Democracy and hates Right & Left -isms had good cause to stand up and cheer last week, as Premier Camille Chautemps fought and won the greatest battle of his career. The grave crisis the Premier faced was really three crises rolled into...
Parliamentary Crisis: Since free France is still continental Europe's greatest Democracy, her battle of last week was fought in the Chamber & Senate. In case Chautemps & Friends did not win, there was a good chance not only of an eruption of strikes, but a general strike followed by God knew what...
...exploits were those of a 17th-Century Great Lover who was also a 20th-century ace, adept at machine-gunning troops from his plane in daring swoops and dives directly over the trenches. Romantic Venice was only a few minutes flight from the front, and Italian beauties got the greatest thrills of their lives, bedding in palaces beside the Grand Canal with a national hero who in fact flew off at dawn to fight the Austrians, returned for lunch or dinner at the latest...
...racing days (1919-20), Man o' War, a golden chestnut colt familiarly known as "Big Red," won all but one of the 21 races he started, established five U. S. track records and was said to be the greatest horse in the history of U. S. racing when he was retired to the stud of his owner, Samuel 13. Riddle, in 1921. In the 14 years since his first foals became of racing age (1924), Big Red's progeny have won more money than the sons & daughters of any other sire† now living...
...including the so-called triple crown (Kentucky Derby. Preakness, Belmont Stakes), and wound up the year with earnings of $166,500 in spite of being hors de combat for five months because of a sore foot. His owner, Samuel D. Riddle, and many another thought War Admiral was the greatest horse in the world...