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...Goshen, N. Y. a mile triangle of treacherous mud. Only a few sportswriters, accustomed to the racing of running horses in any kind of weather, grumbled when officials decided that the Hambletonian, greatest and richest race for U. S. trotting horses, would not be run that day. Any oldster, munching sandwiches in the Ladies' Aid booth, knew that a trotter, whose right front leg and left rear leg must move in dancing unison,* has no business trying to speed when the going is slippery...
...Street since 1889 when the Snellenburg boys moved into that famed shopping centre from South Street. Distinctly high-class was- and is-Snellenburg's firm of lawyers, Brown & Williams, a rock-ribbed partnership of dignified Philadelphia tradition which employs only male stenographers. "General" Francis Shunk Brown, a righteous oldster of 79, is the senior partner. "General" Brown is also president of the Board of City Trusts, and that institution, through its administration of the Girard Estate, acts as Snellenburg's landlord...
...built up an $80,000,000 publishing empire in the last three decades, bought the Morning Post last week for a reported $750,000 (probably less) from a syndicate headed by Sir Percy Bates, board chairman of Cunard-White Star. On Aug. 27 Lord Camrose plans to merge the oldster with his Daily Telegraph. The name Post is likely to be dropped entirely, unless Lord Camrose should decide to launch an Evening Post, a name he had the foresight to register...
With such poor debating competition as this, oldster Lloyd George came off with the day's forensic honors, taunting the Prime Minister with the memory of his late, great halfbrother, Foreign Secretary Sir Austen Chamberlain, K. G. "Many times the late Austen Chamberlain in this House," cried Mr. Lloyd George, "said: 'What is the good of making any pact with Germany? She will only keep it as long as it suits her, and the moment she has a good excuse for breaking it, and it suits her, she will break it?' I am sorry to say that...
...whose administration was marked by gambling scandals. Farmer-Laborites, after a split among themselves which eliminated their present Mayor, Thomas E. Latimer, nominated Kenneth Clair Haycraft, 1928 All-America end at the University of Minnesota. Young and inexperienced, End Haycraft did his best against a shrewder oldster. But when the votes were counted, Mayor Leach was in by a majority of some 17,000 votes. On its first independent try since it was orphaned, the once victorious Farmer-Labor Party was ditched...