Word: handicaps
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Through the 27 days of campaigning for the run-off primary for Texas' governorship, hard-pitching, New Dealing Dr. Homer Price Rainey strove mightily to overcome the 152,000-vote handicap that was indicated by last month's indecisive Democratic primary. Said onetime baseballer Rainey: It won't be over till the last man's out in the ninth...
Senator Glen Taylor of Idaho substituted for Columnist Leonard Lyons for a day, managed to fill a column despite a handicap. "To write a gossip column," he explained, "you have to be up and about among lively company. But I have been stuck in Washington for almost two years now and . . . talk is much more interesting in Pocatello...
...31st Street, Pendergast lieutenants energetically rounded up 12,000 voters, who started Enos Axtell off with a whopping 10,000-vote lead. In one blue ribbon precinct 430 out of 529 registered voters obediently trooped to the polls, 395 of them for Candidate Axtell. It was a handicap Roger Slaughter could not beat, even after winning the nine other wards in the District. The final, unofficial returns: Axtell, 20,424; Slaughter...
Another outsider, Dancer Fred Astaire's 7-to-1 Triplicate, last week took the $79,000 winner's purse in the Hollywood Gold Cup Handicap. The two favorites in the race belonged to Astaire's old employer, M.G.M.'s Mayer; they ran second and fifth...
...intransigent isolationism was no handicap in the German and Scandinavian areas of Minnesota, where isolationism is still a potent political force. Instead of trying to whitewash his record on foreign affairs, he made no bones of the fact that he and North Dakota's Bill Langer had cast the only votes in the Senate against U.N. Rural voters nodded approval...