Word: leaping
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...secured appointment to deal with reconstruction problems as Minister of Transport (1919-21). Since then two industries have engrossed him: Dunlop Rubber, and Imperial Airways Ltd., the veteran cross channel flying firm of whose board he is active Chairman. On rails, on rubber, and on air his high achievements leap and lead...
TAKES THE LEAP WITH RACE TRACK TOUT...
...York's gubernatorial term is two years. Democrats favor the four-year term-but not with leap-year elections. -Last March, the U. S. Supreme Court declared such courts unconstitutional. The referendum would have made such courts constitutional in Ohio. *Machines in which betters place their money on their chosen horses, receiving tickets in return. The betting odds of each race are figured by the machines in ratio to the total amount bet on each horse and winners cash in their tickets at these odds, which are not announced until after each race. The machines also figure...
Comment. These facts considered, it was surprising to see the Smith-smitten New York World, leading Democrat of the East, leap precipitously upon Senator Reed as follows...
Will Rogers, five weeks out of hospital after an appendix removal, had to be "doubled" for in a cinema. As "Congressman Maverick Brander" he was supposed to come tearing out of a Washington, D. C., hotel in a nightshirt and swallowtail coat, leap on a horse, dash down Pennsylvania Avenue to the Capitol. One Fred Lacey, one-time cowboy, now a bus driver, was hired as the double. Hearing a report that his life was held too dear for riding, Mr. Rogers snorted, "Huh, I may be a bum rider but I figure I'm still man enough...