Word: haying
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...focussed on Consul Bourguin, the elephant stopped chewing. Out shot the trunk again, like a fist this time, while the elephant trumpeted in rage. Consul Bourguin was knocked sprawling beneath the beast. Down stomped a colossal foot to break his leg and hip, then light as an armful of hay the angry elephant swung the French Consul overhead, hurled him high in the air across the tent...
Equestrienne Mrs. John Hay ("Liz") Whitney was chosen Queen of Virginia's Shenandoah Apple Blossom Festival in May, will harness her own thoroughbreds to her rolling throne...
...foremost U. S. racing family, the Whitneys, is appropriate. Dorothy Paget's father. Lord Queenborough, met her mother, Pauline Whitney, when he had a ranch in the U. S. Pauline Whitney's father, William Collins Whitney, was Secretary of the Navy under President Cleveland. John Hay ("Jock" ) Whitney, who has not missed a Grand National in six years and who had better luck than usual when his Thomond II finished third last week, is William Collins Whitney's grandson. Delaneige, who led the field most of the way, is owned by John B. Snow, merchandise manager...
...been $18 per ton- no more, no less. The companies are Texas Sulphur, which accounts for two-thirds of the production, and Freeport Texas, the principal deposits of which are at present not in Texas but in Louisiana. Last week Freeport Texas completed a four-year internal reorganization. John Hay ("Jock") Whitney, sportsman son of the late Payne Whitney, was made Freeport's board chairman. Jock Whitney graduated from Yale in 1926 and by the time he finally went to work as a buzzer boy in Lee, Higginson & Co. in Manhattan he was already a director of Great Northern...
...good Canadian objected to saving the C. P. R., but the Opposition saw a fine chance to make political hay. Prime Minister Bennett wrote an informal letter to the Bank of Montreal last spring promising a Government guarantee for the C. P. R. loan. On the basis of this letter the bank loan was negotiated. Not until six months later did the Prime Minister find time to draft the necessary Order-in-Council. In this delay the Opposition thought it smelled a rat. Furthermore, the The committee room was jammed and overflowing when Prime Minister Bennett took the witness stand...