Word: raced
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...House of Representatives for months a great race has been quietly but breathlessly going on between two committees. The contest is to see who can outstrip whom in helping The Veteran help himself to the U. S. Treasury. The committees: 1) Pensions, headed by South Carolina's Allard Henry Casque (pronounced Gaski), whose own military experience is limited to honorary membership in the United Spanish War Veterans, and 2) the Committee on World War Veterans' Legislation, whose chairman is Mississippi's loud, bushy-haired John Elliott Rankin. Congressman Rankin lists himself in his official biography...
...with this purpose the aim of the trustees has been to maintain the work of the Foundation on an international plane without consideration of flags or political doctrines or creeds or sects. . . . We are all of us, under whatever flag, the joint beneficiaries of the intellectual property of the race...
...stroke gets higher. So far it has not gone above 23 strokes per minute. Bolles is confident that he will know the true value of this year's crop of oarsmen after the vacation practice. Unless the weather becomes warmer Bolles will not raise the stroke, until the first race of the year with M.I.T. and Rutgers on the Charles on April...
Second Charlie Ross kidnapping was chiefly significant as an interesting coincidence until its solution made it a major crime in its own right. This was when, at Santa Anita race track last January, Federal agents arrested a 27-year-oldex-lumber-jack named John Henry Seadlund, alias Peter Anders, whose pockets were stuffed with $14,000 in ransom bills. The lumberjack confessed kidnapping Mr. Ross, corroborated his confession by guiding his captors to a cave in the Wisconsin woods northwest of Spooner where were found the frozen corpses of Ross and one James Atwood Gray. Lumberjack Seadlund jauntily explained that...
...member of his race does the saying "poor as a Chinaman" apply less than to Joe Shoong. His 1937 salary was $141,000; National Dollar dividends brought him $40,000 more. (He and his family own a comfortable 51% of National Dollar stock; most of the rest is owned in small lots by various less affluent Chinese.) He has one daughter at Columbia, another at Stanford, a son at a preparatory school, and he has built a school for some 350 children in the Cantonese village in China where his father was born. He lives in a large stucco house...