Word: harrodsburg
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Michigan; John C. Wahlke '39, of Cincinnati, Ohio; Richard C. Webster Jr. '40, of Baltimore; Richard H. Weller '40, of Upper Darby, Pennsylvania; Malcolm R. Wilkey '40, of Madisonville, Kentucky; Grant W. Wiprud '41 of Milwaukee, Wisconsin; William H. Witt '41, of Seattle, Washington; Morton G. Wurtele '40, of Harrodsburg, Kentucky; Joseph A. Wyant '40, of Atlanta, Georgia...
...Dibble. So did the widely-held opinion that bobtailed, high-stepping English hackneys are more suited to coaching than U. S. standard-bred trotters. Mrs. Dibble discussed this with Trainer Walsh at her 18th-Century man sion near Newburyport, Mass., at her stables in Lenox, Mass., in Lexington and Harrodsburg, Ky. Together they recalled that in 1910 Tobacco Tycoon Paul Sorg had made a record trip in coach-&-four from Manhattan to Atlantic City in 12 hours, 18 minutes. He had used 64 English hackneys, posted along the route two weeks before the run. To beat this time with...
...States will not restore that ancient order!" He struck it sentimentally in his radio speech last September: "My friends, I still believe in ideals." He struck it in Tupelo where he defended his power program; "This is not regimentation-it is community rugged individualism." And with more inspiration at Harrodsburg: "We pioneers of 1934. . . .We, too, are hewing out a commonwealth...
First real stop was the thriving little tobacco-market town of Harrodsburg, Ky. Forty thousand people massed to hear President Roosevelt speak from a replica of a log fort built by Daniel Boone, to hear him signalize Harrodsburg as the first permanent white settlement west of the Alleghenies. "We, too, are hewing out a commonwealth...which we hope will give to its people...the fulfillment of security, of freedom, of opportunity..." the President told an audience of "pioneers of 1934." He waved a little silk flag and seven girls pulled the veil off a huge stone frieze of pioneer figures...