Word: handler
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...horse this time was a solid, sound bay colt named Volo Song. With a good record and the best handler in the game, he was the betters' favorite in the first Hambletonian raced at Yonkers' Empire City oval...
Eddle Jeremiah, former Indian ice mentor, left the Hanover fold early this week, to accept a commission in the Navy, and the college lost little time in selecting Rondeau, who is heralded as the best stick-handler in collegiate hockey...
Three of Ossie Cowles' cagers are real hot shots, any of whom is capable of 20 points an evening. This veteran trio includes forwards Bill Myers, a lad who tallied 22 markers against Columbia Monday evening. George Munroe, a classy ball handler with a fine eye, and rangy center Jim Olsen, widely heralded as the best pivot man in the loop...
About three weeks ago U.P.'s Moscow dispatches began coming through signed by Shapiro's assistant, Meyer Handler (once in U.P.'s Paris office); Shapiro had disappeared. Last week, when he returned to Moscow and feverishly began cabling copy, the U.S. found out where he had gone-to Stalingrad, to become the first U.S. or British correspondent to eyewitness the Volga city's battered battlefields. How he got the break, Shapiro did not explain, but in his delayed and heavily-censored dispatches, datelined "With the Red Army on the Stalingrad Front," he predicted that Stalingrad would...
...Poland, plants in Russia, finally founded the holding company, Union Européenne Industrielle et Financière. Through it Schneider-Creusot ultimately controlled 182 armaments works in France, 230 outside, including the giant Skoda works in Czecho-Slovakia. Skoda was allegedly Schneider's "dirty works" plant-handler of contracts Schneider-Creusot would have found politically embarrassing. Through control of the newspapers Le Temps and Journal des Débats, he propagandized on international affairs. When Europe was dreaming of a permanent peace Schneider once confidently remarked that "the only real European union" was the Union Européenne...