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...Kleberg, Assault bolted through on the inside to take command. In the excitement of riding his first Derby, Mehrtens forgot to stop whipping. Assault flashed under the wire all by himself, an eight-length winner of the richest Derby ever (first-place money...
Richard Mifflin Kleberg, Texas Congressman and head of big, famed King Ranch, gave the Brazilian Government two fine bulls of the breed developed by King Ranch...
...Boots an 8-to-5 favorite. Quoted at 4-to-1 were Whirlaway and Charles S. Howard's Porter's Cap (son of The Porter and The Blonde), who ran away with the rich Santa Anita Derby last February. At 8-to-1 were Texan Robert Kleberg's Dispose, big horse of Florida's winter season, and J. Frederick Byers' Robert Morris, a 200-to-1 shot in the winter books-before he outran half a dozen older horses in the Excelsior Handicap at Jamaica last fortnight...
Safely returned to Congress were Senator Tom Connally, Representatives Martin Dies, Wright Patman, Richard Kleberg, Sam Rayburn and Lindley Beckworth, 27-year-old "Baby of Congress...
...Doones. Lindsay Warren won his bill's crucial battle on the House floor with one brief, effective literary allusion. When Representative Kleberg of Texas tried to require that the President's reorganization be approved by a positive vote of Congress (rather than subject to a negative veto), Mr. Warren asked his colleagues: "Have you forgotten the story of Lorna Doone...