Word: handicapped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fact that there are exceptions to all rules. Mr. Orval W. Adams, executive vice president of the Utah State National Bank of Salt Lake City, Utah is a very good golfer. He plays the canyon course of the Salt Lake Country Club around par and has had a handicap of as low as seven. As to his ability as a banker ... he needs no handicap. His bank has paid dividends all through the five years of depression and in 1934 paid an extra dividend and also gave all employes a bonus of 10% of a year's salary...
...Adopted at 18 months by a wealthy couple who educated him as a lawyer, Leon Fraser had never worked in a bank that received or paid out cash when, in 1933, he was elected president of Bank for international Settlements. But his lack of experience was no handicap. B. I. S. handles almost no cash, keeps in its vault as a solemn joke nothing but a 25? California gold piece and a counterfeit Spanish sovereign. Banker Fraser was an expert in international finance, had helped organize B. I. S., built up its profitable business in League of Nations loans...
Downes of the Freshman class took the 35-pound weight throw, while Young, another of the handicap men, placed second, Reznick, winner of last year's weight throw, was third. The absence of Cahners left the Varsity men without a representative in this event...
With a large list of entrants, the annual University Handicap Track Meet will get under way on Monday at Soldiers Field when the hurdles event starts off a two-day program. Many of the stars of the 1934 meet will be back for this winter's competition, with such men as Dick Brayton and Bob Playfair standing a strong chance of repeating their victories of a year...
...listlessness of its debate. Because Chairman Key Pittman of the Foreign Relations Committee was too lukewarm to do a job that rightfully belonged to him, Majority Floor Leader Joseph T. Robinson had to take over Ad- ministration sponsorship of the World Court resolution. This proved an initial handicap because Senator Robinson, though a loud and earnest debater, is no expert on foreign affairs. Meanwhile the case against the Court was presented by Senate veterans who had learned their parts by heart in the debate of 1926. But the Administration entered the final weekend of the fight with confidence unimpaired...