Word: handicaps
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Barkley of Kentucky, boosted last month into the Senate Leadership at an hour when his Democratic colleagues were divided with the greatest bitterness over the Supreme Court issue. Moreover, the celebration was timed to mark the burial of that very bitterness, the hoped-for hour when with his original handicap removed he could lead a reunited majority through a triumphal finale in a closing Congress...
...Howard's four-year-old Seabiscuit, 1937 handicap champion, ridden by Jockey Johnny Pollard: the $70,000 Massachusetts Handicap, richest horse race of the summer; setting a new track record (1 min. 49 sec.) for a mile and an eighth and boosting his season's winnings to $142,000; at Suffolk Downs, Boston...
...Miller, husky Buffalo, N. Y. Customs Officer, whose quiver was made from a moose's foot. Any one of these or most of the other amateur or professional toxophilites in the running for last week's championship could have given any aboriginal American archer a handicap and beaten him. Indian procedure in bow & arrow hunting was to stalk a quarry until practically on top of it instead of depending on long distance marksmanship. When each of the 106 ablest bowmen in the U. S. had shot his 468 arrows, Russ Hoogerhyde was champion again...
...Jesse Owens Day, which he characterized simply as "the most colorful of all days." It was Mr. Booze's birthday. Sprinter Owens gave Mississippi's champion high-school sprinter, Berkeil Naylor of Cleveland, Miss, (white), a five-yard handicap, beat him easily. Mr. Booze's No. 2 attraction was an Aviator, Colonel John C. Robinson, "the Brown Condor of Ethiopia,"* who landed at the Mound Bayou Airport with Mrs. Annie M. Turnbo Malone, president of Chicago's Negro Poro College...
Last spring when his horses. Fairy Hill and Rosemont. won the $50,000 Santa Anita Derby and the $100,000 Santa Anita Handicap in quick succession, William du Pont Jr., whose reputation as the horsiest member of his Delaware clan had previously been based on his stable of steeplechasers, decided to open a race track of his own. Last week the new track, Delaware's first since the State Legislature legalized betting in 1935,* opened. In the feature race of opening day, some 20,000 spectators saw Mrs. C. Oliver Iselin's Strabo nose out John Hay Whitney...