Word: md
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...SHAPIRO Baltimore, Md...
...there. Washington-polished, he plays golf in the 80's at the Congressional Club. Observers have long anticipated a collision between Comptroller McCarl and the NRA. Last week that collision seemed imminent. Upon the Comptroller's desk arrived a letter from a Ford dealer in Bethesda, Md. which was loaded with implications. The dealer, one R. P. Sabine, had put in the low bid on 1,500 trucks which the Civilian Conservation Corps proposed to buy. His bid was declared ineligible by General Johnson because Mr. Ford had failed to sign the automobile code and under Presidential ruling...
Turf folk at the Laurel, Md. track one day last week crowded into the paddock of a big, handsome bay stallion, nearly 17 hands high, with a high-poised head and well-spaced eyes-Winooka, fastest sprinter of Australasia. Winooka was unheard-of outside Australia until last year when, a four-year-old, he won eight of 13 starts, failed only once to finish in the money. Of those races the greatest was the Doncaster Handicap in which he broke the late famed Phar Lap's Australasian record for the mile. Carrying 139 lb., Winooka...
...extemporaneous speech at Chestertown, Md., where Washington College gave him an LL. D., President Roosevelt seemed to have the Lippmann criticism in mind. He said: "Some countries which have Dictatorships have laid down five-year plans and ten-year plans. However, I believe that in this country, which has not got a Dictator, we can move further in a shorter period without naming a definite length of time. . . . We have attained much within the past few months, but we cannot accomplish all in a few months...
...stooped and toothless crone of 71 shuffled along a country road near Kingston, Md. one morning last week. Mrs. Mary Denston was on her way to see her daughter. Suddenly, from behind, black hands were laid upon her. Cackling and kicking feebly she was dragged by a young Negro buck to a clump of bushes. There, amid a flurry of leaves dancing rustily in the autumn sunshine, she was raped...