Word: parred
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Rebuilt since the time when, playing a dogleg par four, Jock Hutchinson and big Bob MacDonald each got 2s, the other members of their foursome, 3s. Blue Mound is still only 6,270 yd. long, shorter than most championship links. In the qualifying rounds, an obscure Timber Point (L. I.) professional named Jimmy Hines, and Mortie Dutra, hulking brother of the hulking defending champion, tied for the medal with 138. Par 70 was broken or tied 16 times and the 31 out of 97 starters who qualified needed 146 or better. In the first round, Leo Diegel lost...
...poned one day. The Fayette County sheriff talked of appealing for U. S. troops to maintain peace. To prevent a recurrence of the Pennsylvania coal troubles elsewhere NRA appealed to the country for a moratorium on strikes and lockouts. Approving this, too, the President declared it was "on a par with Samuel Gompers' memorable War-time demand to preserve the status quo." Appointed by him to adjust NRA labor troubles was one more board chairmanned by New York's Senator Wagner. Labor's Windfall. Despite the President's declarations, the all-important issue of unionization behind...
...whole countryside smoldering indignation, the court adjourned the case until after harvest time, enjoined the farmers to go out and reap what they have sown-after which attempts will undoubtedly begin to collect a tithe of the harvest. In all about ?3,000,000 ($14,580,000 at par) are collected annually in tithes, two-thirds by that hoary institution called Queen Anne's Bounty. Its Chairman George Middleton is a onetime Laborite M. P. and friend of Scot MacDonald. Whenever the Prime Minister grows excited about tithes, George Middleton is wont to declare firmly "Queen Anne...
...Majesty's subjects "cannot colonize" the Northern Territory and should therefore let Japanese at least try. Mr. Lyons revealed a secret. His Government, he declared, has about completed negotiations with two groups of British financiers ready to invest between them ?200,000,000 ($972,000,000 at par) in developing roughly half a million square miles of northern Australia...
...strokes up. In the afternoon, Wood took 39 to the turn as he had done in the morning. At the 33rd, he was still five strokes behind. Shute, his long iron shots travelling to the greens as though they were on wires, ran off the last three holes in par, finished with 149 to Wood's 154. Said he when he received the championship Cup from the Earl of Lindsay: "I'm still too excited to think but I'm tickled to death...