Word: mate
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...famed aunt, Mrs. Thomas Hitchcock, "mother of U. S. polo." Another teacher was his uncle. F. Ambrose Clark, who still drives a coach & four at Westbury, L. I. and goes abroad every year to hunt at Melton Mowbray. His older brothers are Albert C. Bost wick, whose racehorse Mate won the Preakness last year, and Dunbar Bost wick, who played on the Yale polo team which last week beat Harvard 13-to-9 for the intercollegiate champion ship. No self-educated sportsman like Eddie Eagan (see col. 3), Jockey Bost wick inherited a fortune before he left St. Paul...
...convention, Vice President Curtis expected to find himself perched high on his Senate throne when the delegates in Chicago get around to the tail of the ticket. That that place would again be his he had no serious doubt. President Hoover had not asked his 1928 running mate to step aside for another candidate. The Vice President, therefore, reasoned that a Hoover-Curtis ticket was again in order. So did most of the delegates last week on their way to Chicago...
...elements, which, unless carefully managed, will be apt to disturb, at least temporarily, that beautiful peace which has hitherto blessed the Republican campaign. Mr. Hoover is, of course, assured of his re-nomination, an event which will climax the proceedings on Thursday. But the choice of a running mate is as yet a trifie less certain. The president, to be sure, would retain his present partner, but Mr. Curtis, aside from his advanced age of 73 years, is politically in-acceptable to many party leaders. There has already been much foolish talk about Mr. Coolidge; there will be more about...
...destroyer U.S.S. Tillman for the advanced training cruise, which will return on or about June 30. The officer in charge of the group of 28 students will be Lieutenant (j.g.) E. A. Seay, U.S.N., (assistant professor of Naval Science and Tactics), assisted by Chief Gunner's Mate W. E. Stevens, U.S.N.R...
Dearly would Socialist Norman Thomas of New York City like to be the eighth Ohioan, the third Princetonian to sit in the White House. Last week, at the Socialist National Convention in Milwaukee, he got his second chance with his second nomination. As in 1928, his running mate was chosen to be James H. Maurer, one-time president of the Pennsylvania Federation of Labor. A 60-min. ovation greeted their uncontested nominations. Candidate Thomas keynoted his campaign thus: "Not merely or chiefly the Democratic or Republican parties, but the capitalist system behind them stands exposed in all its brutal stupidity...