Word: handicapped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Discovering a "public demand" for his services at Albany. Colonel Donovan last month threw himself ardently into a personal campaign for the gubernatorial nomination. His chief handicap is that he lacks the backing of the local Buffalo organization. In Manhattan he was given a dinner last week by the New York Young Republican Club at which he declared: "The American people must give themselves another Boston Tea Party and this time throw the pork barrels overboard." He flayed Governor Roosevelt's Columbus speech as "so much flypaper spread out in the hope of ensnaring the vote of the discontented...
Chief among these new allies are such men as Washington's Dill, Louisiana's Long, Montana's Wheeler, North Carolina's Daniels, California's McAdoo. Each & every one of them would like to "run" a Democratic President. Their political claims to that privilege seriously handicap Governor Roosevelt in the East. By alarmed Republicans he is depicted as an "unsafe" leader in "unsafe" company. Even President Hoover raised the cry of radicalism against his opponent in his acceptance speech. But Governor Roosevelt is a smart politician and sometimes it is good politics to give the appearance of being "run" by this...
...government of long-necked Eamon de Valera was accused by the governors of the Cork North Infirmary last week of withholding nearly $2,600,000 due to Irish hospitals as results of the last three Irish Hospitals' Sweepstakes (on the November Handicap, the Grand National, the Derby...
...presidential nominee told newshawks: "I'm here to see my boss-Governor Roosevelt-and get my orders for the campaign. When I get 'em, I'll carry 'em out like a good soldier." In Manhattan the Speaker declared: "I hear that I am considered a handicap to the ticket in the East. . . . For those of you who still have some property . . . please realize I am not going to take it away. I have some myself-a little...
...Plucky Play, at odds of 12 to 1: the Arlington Park Handicap; carrying in Ib. to 134 Ib. for Equipoise, the favorite, who missed winning his eighth race in a row by a short neck in a great finish; at Chicago. ¶Winthrop Rutherfurd Jr., No. 5 of the 1927 Princeton crew; the quarter-mile dash for single sculls at the Royal Canadian Henley Regatta, beating famed Joe Wright, of Toronto, at St. Catherines, Ont. Two days later Rutherfurd won the senior singles and, with his brother John, the senior doubles...