Word: jamaica
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Louisville. Last week at Jamaica the track was sloppy for the $40,000 Wood Memorial, the race that had been a Derby stepping stone for such great horses as Twenty Grand, Gallant Fox, Count Fleet and Assault. The odds on Olympia were a prohibitive 1 to 3. He shot into the lead at the start, in a driving rainstorm, and stayed in front by a length or two to the homestretch. There, mud-loving Palestinian caught him and forged slightly ahead. Jockey Eddie Arcaro stung Olympia once with the whip, then gave the form players a chill by hand-riding...
Radcliffe Choral Society members named Mildred Blacklock '50, of Jamaica, New York, head of the group for 1949-50, present president Barbara Connolly '49 announced last night...
...York, and Harvard Hall, was chosen vice-president of the Class of 1953. Faith Gowen of Dobba Ferry, New York and Barnard Hall, will be secretary; Judith Robison of New York City and Barnard Hall; treasurer; Rachel Mellinger of Springfield, Ohio, and Cabot Hall and Cannaught O'Connell of Jamaica Plain, Class representatives...
President--Mildred Blacklock '50 of 23 Everett st. and Jamaica, New York; major--Fine Arts; Dance Group president; Choral Society; Athletic Association...
...Leewards' working folk, whose income averages some $50 a year, liked Lord Baldwin fine. He plumped for unemployment insurance, hospitals and new industries. He dug deep into his own pocket to provide schooling for native children, and spent ?150 ($600) to bring a water-diviner from Jamaica to find wells on the parched islands. He told the Antigua legislature: "Being the only governor you've had who's been in prison [he was twice captured, once by the Turks and once by the Bolsheviks, while fighting as a volunteer for the Armenians in 1921], I naturally take...