Word: handicapped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...program of its own. What that program was, continued to remain his secret last week. Undoubtedly it would contain plans for farm and industrial relief. Prime uncertainty: taxation. Democrats in the House where such measures must originate, had no desire to sponsor a tax upping bill which might handicap them in the campaign. They much preferred to wait and see what President Hoover-who is, after all, responsible for Federal finance-would recommend. If he wanted an increase in taxes to meet the deficit House Democrats might give it to him-and the blame as well...
None of the services reported the sweepstakes on last week's Manchester November Handicap. But the New York Daily News was not afraid. Fortnight ago it got by special cable, and printed, a list of New Yorkers whose tickets were drawn. No other Manhattan daily did. Last week the News proudly reprinted from the Times's editorial page a letter from a reader, protesting that he was "forced to look to a tabloid" for the sweepstakes news. Said he: ". . . I know that you have done this by agreement with the Post Office authorities, but let me tell...
...game. Philosophically the passengers turned to Hochheimer wine. An electrician repaired the radio, wrecked the night before by a jealous accordion-player. Doubly disappointed was Walter J. Salmon who had elected to go to the game rather than watch his horse, Dr. Freeland, run in the $25,000 Maryland handicap at Bowie; and Nicholas ("Nick") Roberts, ardent Yaleman of Montclair, N. J. who had not missed a Yale-Harvard game in 30 years; and J. Murray Mitchell who was to have been host to a large luncheon-&-game party at Cambridge. (He had their tickets in his pocket...
...Grady '33 won the 120-yard high hurdles yesterday to take a total of two first and one second place on the final day of the annual Fall Handicap Track Meet. Grady was the winner of the 70-yard high hurdles and placed second in the high jump in the first day of the meet. Oscar Sutermeister '32, jumped from scratch, cleared the bar at 12 feet, six inches to win the pole vault at a height one inch under his mark in last year's meet...
...annual Fall Handicap Cross-Country Meet, open to all members of the University, will also be held this afternoon. Among the entrants are G.H. Bullwinkle, 1G. former intercollegiate mile champion and track and cross-country start at C.C. N. Y. J.M. Estabrook '34 will be the only member of the University team to enter the meet...