Word: pigeon
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...other trainers in U. S. Turf history had ever saddled more than 100 winners in a year; no one had ever done it two years in a row. Long considered unapproachable by contemporary trainers, these records were last week broken to bits by a 32-year-old Brooklyn pigeon fancier named Hirsch Jacobs.* At Yonkers, N. Y. last week Trainer Jacobs, who a dozen years ago did not know the difference between a pony and a Percheron, saddled his 150th winner of the current season. With ten weeks of racing left, his total should reach 175 before the year...
...Young Archibald Fairley of Dundee, who found stunned upon the ground and nursed back to health a pigeon belonging to King Edward, received as a reward from His Majesty two pigeons which arrived in a crate lettered: "LIVE BIRDS -URGENT-FROM HIS MAJESTY THE KING." ¶A horse of exceptional gentleness named Cherry Grove was discovered in the stable of the Salford mounted police and bought for $750 to become the "charger" which will bear His Majesty through the streets of London on State occasions. Cherry Grove was first elaborately tested in the stableyard of the Metropolitan Police...
...geography turned upside down. Beginning with a discussion of rivers, plains, mountain ranges, rainfall, Stuart Chase proceeds to long, eloquent, angry lament on the squandering of native riches. Like the Whitman of a bankrupt country, he composes a great catalog of lost national wealth, including the buffalo, the passenger pigeon, eastern salmon, Pacific halibut, petroleum, timber, coal, the great auk, the Carolina parakeet, the drought-impoverished Dust Bowl. It is a disturbing account, calculated to make any responsible citizen treasure every green tree and each clear brook of his native land. The oyster catch declined from 25 million bushels...
...that another WTA crew, furbishing up for the forthcoming Democratic National Convention, was busy scraping down the bronze statues in City Hall Plaza to make them "look like new." Such treatment would remove the bronzes' cherished patina, which comes only from long exposure to atmosphere, rain, dust and pigeon droppings. Tearing off his blue smock, Sculptor Donato dashed from his studio shouting: "This time I am going to give them hell...
...public school system hires 13,000 teachers, educates 460,000 pupils at a yearly cost of $71,000,000. Few U. S. educators, however, feel any strong urge to rule it. Peppery, fox-bearded Superintendent William McAndrew (1924-28), born in Ypsilanti, Mich., was constantly bedeviled as a "stool pigeon of King George" by Mayor William Hale ("Big Bill'') Thompson's "America First" campaign. His successor, William Joseph Bogan (1928-36), spent most of his term in the morass of teachers' "payless paydays." Last week Chicago's Board of Education, looking for a successor...