Word: leas
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Crimson club, however, led by Mike Rice, Lea Pitchford, and Ed Buckley, seems to have too much balance and batting punch for the dangerous Elis. The Blue first year men have had a good season, but they fell before Andover, while the Crimson later stopped the winning streak of the Royal Blue and beat them...
Eager to see Stagehand, No. i money winner of 1938, repeat his performance of the fortnight before, when he snatched the McLennan Handicap from Warren Wright's promising Bull Lea in a spectacular stretch finish, 21,000 racing addicts jam-packed the Park-from the 40 ? bleacher section reserved for colored folks to the ;ony terrace boxes atop the clubhouse. Everyone talked Stagehand-from Fred Snite Jr., the famed iron lung patient who, with the aid of a periscope and mirrors, watched the races from Ks ambulance railer parked midway down the homestretch, and the sport writer...
When the race was over, 21,000 astonished fans realized that thoroughbreds are thoroughly unpredictable. The mighty Stagehand, a notoriously slow starter, lacked the stretch-running drive to overtake the leaders this time, finished three lengths behind speedy Bull Lea and a half length behind Marshall Field's Sir Damion...
Times change. Things are different today. Looking through The Saturday Evening Post of Oct. 5 I find the following ads- Boston Garter, Daisy Air Rifle, Chiclets, Holeproof Hosiery, Lea & Perrins, Florsheim Shoes, Van Camp's Pork & Beans, Packard cars, Gold Medal Flour etc., etc. The first 31 words of the first editorial entitled "The Howl and the Howlers," are "Glancing casually over a day's news we learn that investors, not knowing what Roosevelt will do next, fear 'that the little of value that is left to them will soon vanish...
...Created a new body to watch newspaper and radio advertising. FTC set up a Radio & Periodical Division to administer provisions of the recent Wheeler-Lea Act. Appointed director was an FTC trial lawyer with the extraordinary name of PGad Morehouse. PGad is a contraction of Peter Gad, given name of Mr. Morehouse's grandfather...