Word: hitchcock
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...outmounted-they had brought along better ponies than any previous British team. On the American side nothing sensational had happened. Five-foot one-inch, 175-lb. Eric Pedley of California had made No. 1 as everyone expected him to-the first westerner to get on an international team. Thomas Hitchcock Jr. was at No. 3 where he could not be expected to make as many goals as he used to at No. 2 but where he could feed Pedley and Hopping long drives to score on. Big, young, hard-hitting Winston Guest was at back...
Critics had predicted a runaway for the Americans. This did not happen. Through the first half, and until the seventh chukker. the Englishmen made it hard. Lacey's Argentine ponies outran the bigger U. S. mounts for a while; first Guest, then Roark and Hitchcock broke mallets. Lacey stole the ball from Hopping and Hitchcock for beautiful shots. What the English team lacked most was an accurate goal shooter like Pedley. Consistently the ball was fed to Balding at No. 1, but under pressure, Balding's shots were sliced, sometimes missed entirely. In the last periods...
...Chicago formally opened its first plant. In at one end went bituminous coal, out at the other came shiny briquets, while coal dealers and the Press watched and listened to the high hopes of the promoters: Clarence S. Lomax, inventor; Charles Edison Poyer, grandnephew of Thomas Alva Edison; Thomas Hitchcock Jr., international polo captain. The infant company asserts it has found the long-sought low-temperature distillation process for converting bituminous into a smokeless, slow-burning fuel which will undersell retail anthracite. If the process really works commercially, it may prove to be the tonic so badly needed...
...Stebbins. Senator Norris' campaign cost $2,620. Contributors: $200 from himself, $1,000 from Republican Senator Bronson Cutting of New Mexico; $1,000 from Mrs. Gifford Pinchot of Pennsylvania; $500 from Judson King, Washington liberal. In the November election Senator Norris, a Dry, will face Gilbert Monell Hitchcock, Wet conservative Democrat, once (1911-23) potent Senator from Nebraska who vainly led the Wilson fight for Senate ratification of the Treaty of Versailles. Would the national G.O. P. organization in Washington support Senator Norris as the party nominee? Senator Simeon Davison Fess, Republican National Committee chairman, said it would...
...Democratic trend has been clearly indicated by the party's Senatorial nominees in recent primaries: James Hamilton Lewis in Illinois, Robert Johns Bulkley in Ohio, Thomas Pryor Gore in Oklahoma, Gilbert Monell Hitchcock in Nebraska, Alexander Simpson in New Jersey and Sedgwick Kistler in Pennsylvania...