Word: raced
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Competing in a program of events which is somewhat altered from the original plan, the flyers will try their skill at sort landings, bomb dropping, and a novelty race that consists in the identification of landmarks. The paper strafing events which was the only one that was finished on the former date will stand as completed, announced Keith Davis '38, former president of the Harvard Flying Club and now Chairman of the N. E. I. F. C. which is sponsoring the contest...
...native, was strongly defended by President Roosevelt today. Striking out at newspaper and Congressional criticism that Hopkins sought to "play politics with human misery" when he stated his preferences for Rep. Otha D. Wearin, young New Dealer, to Son, Guy M. Gillette in Iowa's Democratic senatorial primary race, the Chief Executive described the agitation as a great deal of smoke...
...Floyd Roberts of Van Nuys, Calif.: the annual 500-mile Memorial Day automobile race; his first major victory in 22 years of racing; driving the entire distance without relief and stopping only once (for 30 seconds); finishing five miles ahead of second-place Wilbur Shaw, last year's winner; in 4 hr., 15 min., 58.40 sec., for an average of 117.200 m.p.h., which broke the record of 113.580 set by Shaw last year; before a crowd of 150,000; at Indianapolis. Of the 33 drivers who started, only 13 finished. One, Emil Andres of Chicago, wound...
...Five-year-old Snark: the 52nd running of the historic mile-and-a-quarter Suburban Handicap; by a nose, over Jerome Louchheim's four-year-old Pompoon; in 2 min., 1 2/5 sec., fastest undisputed time in the history of the race; at Belmont Park. Disgruntled was the crowd of 25,000 who had gone to the track hoping to see Samuel Riddle's famed War Admiral run against his old rival, Pompoon, as a substitute for the widely publicized $100,000 Memorial Day race with Seabiscuit, which had been called off earlier in the week because...
Most self-conscious about problems like race prejudice and the fight for social justice are Warner Bros. But most of the $5,876,183 profit their company netted during its last fiscal year came from Dick Powell musicals, crime stories opportunely snatched from newspaper headlines, feathery comedies. With recent earnings over a million dollars less than those of the first six months of the last fiscal year, Warners have decided on a return to the brisk action film of the G-Man and public-enemy cycle that pulled them out of their last slump. For such a return, James Cagney...