Word: hackney
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Herbert Stanley Morrison, who set an example for the Empire, is a onetime errand boy and telephone operator who grew up to be Mayor of suburban Hackney in 1920. Serving two terms in the House of Commons, he was Laborite Minister of Transport (1929-31). Since the fall of the Labor Cabinet he has concentrated on London city politics. Nowadays, despite his beliefs, he appears as correctly clad as any stockbroker, proudly carrying the Londoner's traditional furled umbrella. It was not always so. In 1929, three months after he became His Majesty's Minister of Transport...
Sheriff of Fayette County is Harry Hackney who, to hold his job, must stand in well with the mine operators. When Fayette disorders reached the front page. Governor Pinchot proposed to Sheriff Hackney the same remedy he successfully used week before in the Lansdale hosiery strike: let the sheriff withdraw his deputies and turn their job over to the State police. Sheriff Hackney refused, whereupon Governor Pinchot marched his soldiers into the county. Said he: "The miners have the right to organize, to picket peacefully and to assemble in meetings. . . . The mine operators have a right to protection of their...
...jumping events were distributed most of the best U. S. show horses: Mrs. Florence F. Dibble's veteran Flowing Gold, winner in the class for large saddle horses; Mrs. John Hay Whitney's string of dappled grey hunters; Mrs. William C. Cox's bay gelding hackney pony Cassilis Mighty's Mite, who won the Killearn Farm Challenge Trophy; Mrs. Paul Moore's famed Seaton Pippin, world's champion hackney. Interest in the jumpers centered this year on the Irish Free State's string. Outstanding jumper from Ireland was Shannon Power, a 5-year...
Seaton Pippin, by Marlboro, out of Phosphate, by Polonius, holds the world's record as a hackney. She has won more championships than any other horse in her class, has never been defeated in single harness nor in hand. Named (like the Moore stables, Seaton Hackney Farm at Morristown, N. J.) for Lady Seaton, international hackney champion who was retired in 1917. she was foaled eleven years ago and shown for the first time three years later. At five, she won the reserve championship. Since then, she has won the $2,000 harness horse stake at the National Horse Show...