Word: oakleys
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...convention at Idaho Falls nominated Senator William Edgar Borah for the Senate. One vote was cast against him. Senator Borah rested 2,000 mi. away in the Maine woods. Idaho's two Republican Congressmen, Burton Lee French and Addison Taylor Smith, were renominated. To John McMurray of Oakley went the Republican gubernatorial nomination...
...swirling river to Coblenz. French shipping companies at Strasbourg kept all their tugs, barges, river boats in dock during the celebration. The only foreign ensign which the Hindenburgs saw was a huge U. S. flag flapping from the staff of Schloss Schönburg at Oberwesel, estate of T. J Oakley Rhinelander. Manhattan socialite, uncle of miscegenating Kip Rhinelander (TIME, Jan. 6 et ante...
First national sport of the U. S. was neither baseball nor horseshoe-pitching but rifle-shooting. Shooting was part of most citizens' daily lives; nearly every village had a range where shoots were held for turkeys, chickens, or barrels of corn whiskey. Only 20 years ago dead-eyed Annie Oakley was as popular a figure as Helen Wills Moody is today. Nowadays the public gets more excited over flagpole sitting than over marksmanship. Last fortnight when the U. S. International Free-Rifle team sailed for Antwerp to try for the fifth successive time to bring the championship back to this...
...defeated the Navy and New York University, both of which won, 5 to 4, from Yale. There is little basis for comparison of the two second teams. Yale defeated Princeton, 6 to 3, while the Crimson Seconds have played nine matches, inning six and losing three, to the Freshmen; Oakley Country Club, and Longwood Country Club...
...Seconds--Oakley C. C. 4. Harvard...