Word: lexington
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Auction Riot Lexington, Ky. is the scene each year of the biggest tobacco auctions in the U. S. But last week tobacco-men watched the smaller towns of Owensboro and Henderson instead. At Owensboro some 3,000 farmers collected around the main warehouse or ''floor'' for the year's first auction. A big, one-story frame building, covered with sheet metal, the "floor"' is a store room where buyers can see the actual lots of tobacco they buy, while each seller plainly hears what his neighbor gets for his crop. Most tobacco growers...
Married. Lady Sophie Mary Heath, 35, aviatrix; and George Anthony Reginald Williams, 33, aviator, West Indies-born; in Lexington, Ky., whither they had gone for the Prince of Wales steeplechase. Said the bride: "This is the first time I have ever married a young man. My first husband, Elliott-Lynn, was 76 when we were married, and my second, Sir James Heath...
...many months past Mike has conducted his ever growing business . . . at his new cordial shop at No. 671 Lexington Avenue. Neither the law nor depression of present business will down Mike. To go his competitors one better in the smart neighborhood of his new shop all gin has been reduced a quarter a bottle...
...last owner, the gambler's mistress, is deeply attached both to Tommy Boy and to a young gambler who, regenerate in the last reel, informs her stable-hands of the plot which he has helped to formulate. Shots of Elmendorf, Joseph E. Widener's farm near Lexington, Ky.; the 1931 Derby at Churchill Downs; of Vice President Curtis (a onetime jockey) marching down the clubhouse steps; and the sounds of a radio announcer mingling the names of real Derby horses (Spanish Play, Sweep All) with fictitious ones (Tommy Boy, Bar Sinister), help make the atmosphere of Sporting Blood...
...colt owned by John M. Berry of Rome, Ga. A third choice, 5-to-1 in the auction pool just before the horses skimmed onto the track for the first heat, was William M. Wright's bay, Calumet Butler. William M. Wright was at his home in Lexington, Ky., too ill to be conscious; Calumet Butler was driven by his trainer, Richard McMahon...