Word: jim
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Gallant Fox, developed, after a mediocre season as a two-year-old, into one of the great racehorses of all time. He won nine of the ten races in which he started in 1930, including the three-year-old triple crown (Kentucky Derby, Preakness, Belmont Stakes). Trained by Sunny Jim Fitzsimmons and ridden by smart Earl Sande, he earned the scarlet-spotted Belair silks $308,275, became the first and only horse ever to win more than $300,000 in one year...
...turf fans, has been around racetracks for over 50 years. Starting as a stable boy at Sheepshead Bay in 1885, he became a jockey soon afterward, rode on the Frying Pan circuit (half-mile tracks), got $5 a ride (when his employers paid off). In the flourishing Nineties, Jim Fitzsimmons became a pee-wee trainer. His big chance came in 1908 when betting was outlawed in New York, the topnotch U. S. trainers flocked to England, and the second-raters got a crack at the juicy training jobs at home...
...world's most successful trainers, Sunny Jim is also one of the kindest, most understanding. Says he: "There are only two kinds of horses: those who have good manners and those who have been neglected...
...time to cross its fingers over the President's intentions, he acted. Once more Franklin Roosevelt went outside FCC to pick a chairman. Like Frank McNinch, 41-year-old James Lawrence Fly made his name with the New Deal program. TVA's general counsel since 1937, able Jim Fly won TVA's two major tilts in the Supreme Court. A tall, quiet, hard-working Texan who graduated from Annapolis and spent three years in the Navy before loping through Harvard Law School in two years, Lawyer Fly is a New Dealer on power questions but no zealot...
...John and Anna Roosevelt were all sailing for Europe on the same ship, Franklin D. Roosevelt remarked : "That will be a great boatload," observed that if someone didn't get thrown overboard before the ship reached Southampton he would miss a guess. It would not, he predicted, be Jim Farley...