Word: raced
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Texas' biggest political news of the week was. however, the race to succeed Mr. Allred as Governor. In a field of twelve for the Democratic nomination (virtual election), leading contestants until last month were Attorney General William ("Bill") McCraw and redheaded Railroad Commissioner Ernest Othmer ("Red Colonel") Thompson. Then into the race stepped Wilbert Lee O'Daniel, of Fort Worth, a radio character well-known to Texans, for years a flour salesman, later a miller...
Slums & Horse Parks. As WPA extends from storm sewers to nursery schools, so the interests and adaptabilities of Harry Lloyd Hopkins are equally diverse. He is at home in the slums, planning improvements, and in his rich friends' boxes at race tracks, picking winners. He can talk with equal charm to dear old ladies and to glamor girls, can sit with groups of serious thinkers, or join the boys in the back room. Since he got rid of his stomach ulcer last December and recuperated at Ambassador Joe Kennedy's house in Palm Beach...
...fastest ever made on foot up the mountain. Six minutes later came Paul Donato, another Bostonian, who (like Darrah) had eaten a pound of rare beefsteak for breakfast. Loudest cheers went to 45-year-old Clyde Ormsby of Colorado Springs, oldest entrant in the race, who finished seventh. Called upon by broadcasters to say a few words over the radio, Mr. Ormsby was in a sorry predicament. The patrolman to whom he had entrusted his false teeth was at that moment chasing a holiday tippler down the peak...
...managerial job in the major leagues this year. Signed last winter to manage last year's last-place Reds, Bill McKechnie transformed them from a 40-to-1 shot in April to a pennant possibility at midseason. On the Fourth of July, traditional halfway mark in the pennant race, the Reds last week were in fourth place, but were leading the National League in club batting average, had the leading pitcher (Vander Meer), leading batter (Lombardi), leading homerun hitter (Goodman, whose 20 homeruns so far are more than any player in Cincinnati's history ever made...
Novel based on the wire service providing race-track information to poolroom bookmakers, with much whipped-up and unconvincing material on the size of the racket, and much melodrama on the attempts of racketeers to get control of it. The best section, telling how dumb Joe Dugan of Kansas City unwittingly beat up a powerful gangster, who thereafter thought the worst mob yet had come to town, is so funny that the rest of the book seems flatter by contrast...