Word: handicapped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...said he had had various of his administrative agencies draw up a statement of the South's economic handicap and shortcomings. He wanted the 23 Southern gentlemen to examine and discuss this, restate it if they liked until it represented "the South's own best thought." Then he would present it to the Congress. To guide the Southern gentlemen's deliberations he detailed Lowell Mellett, director of his National Emergency Council...
...racetrack fans. At Suffolk Downs, on Boston Harbor, 66,000 New Englanders, the second largest crowd ever to witness a horse race in the U. S. gathered to watch a loudly ballyhooed meeting of War Admiral and Seabiscuit, two of the seven entries in the $50,000 added Massachusetts Handicap. Three thousand miles away, in brand-new Hollywood Park at Inglewood, 50,000 Californians gathered to watch a highly touted race, for a $50,000 purse, between Herbert M. Woolf's Lawrin (Kentucky Derby winner) and William du Font's Dauber (Preakness winner) to settle the "American three...
Massachusetts Handicap (Wed. 4:45 p.m., NBC-Blue) brings together War Admiral and Seabiscuit for delayed meeting, barring scratches...
...intelligent, but the ambition to make money for the sake of money should have been buried with the primitive Forty Niners. The tradition of money-making has delayed intellectual progress; it has tended to narrow the American mind and stifle the enthusiasm for social improvement. It is a serious handicap to the graduate in the process of adjusting himself to society...
Outstanding races of the 33-day meet will be the $50,000 Hollywood Gold Cup Handicap (for three-year-olds and up), and a special $50,000 race between Herbert M. Woolf's Lawrin, Kentucky Derby winner, and William du Pont's Dauber, Preakness winner, for the "three-year-old championship" of the year. Missing from Hollywood Park's stalls last week were Charles S. Howard's Seabiscuit and Maxwell Howard's Stagehand, the two outstanding California performers last winter, who were both going to Suffolk Downs instead for next fortnight...