Word: poker
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ever genuinely enjoyed being Vice President of the U. S. For 36 years his colleagues in House and Senate knew Kansas' Charles Curtis not only as a modest, hardworking, ultraconservative, non-speechmaking Republican wheelhorse, but as a friendly, back-slapping good fellow, a crack poker player and lover of horse races...
Married. Princess Senije, 27, third sister of King Zog I, Italy's puppet, poker-playing ruler of Albania; and H. R. H. Prince Mehmed-Abid of Turkey, youngest son of Sultan Abdul ("Abdul the Damned") Hamid II, onetime oppressor of Albanians; in Tirana...
...excitement of picking a convention city in which fo renominate Franklin Roosevelt. A sporting atmosphere was introduced right at the start by canny William Gibbs McAdoo. Speaking in behalf of San Francisco, California's Democratic Senator inquired of Boss Farley: "Is this going to be a poker game or a straight...
...guess," replied the Postmaster General, "that the bid can be raised. Then play poker and bid your head...
President Ivey was Virginia-Carolina's counsel in 1932, when internal troubles over a proposed merger with an Armour & Co. fertilizing subsidiary brought Mr. Kemp to the fore and began Virginia-Carolina's warfare. A tightlipped, poker-faced Baptist, Mr. Ivey is 50, a Georgia farm-boy with a law degree from Columbia University who was "reared between the plough-handles." 1886-1936 "At the annual meeting in 1886, Mr. Coolidge, then Treasurer, called your attention to the trend of [the cotton] industry southward. In 1889, 1891, 1896 and 1897 he stressed the same idea, pointing...