Word: raced
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...destined to be great, Man o' War, was led to the barrier for the annual Sanford Memorial Stakes at Saratoga Springs, N. Y. When the starting signal was given, Man o' War was facing in the opposite direction from his rivals. That was the only race Man o' War ever lost. The horse which beat him was named Upset. Since that day race fans have thought of the Sanford Memorial as the race in which Man o' War was licked by bad luck...
...William Jennings Bryan, beat the late Clarence Darrow in court and convicted John Thomas Scopes of the crime of teaching evolution in a Dayton, Tenn. public school. (Another figure in that fantasy was Defense Attorney John Randolph Neal of Knoxville, who last week was defeated in his own forlorn race for the Senate.) After the Dayton furor, Tom Stewart returned to obscurity and to repeated re-election as attorney general in Tennessee's 18th judicial district. A competent trial lawyer, fanatical bird hunter, Methodist, he campaigned under Crump-McKellar direction simply as a Roosevelt New Dealer who would...
Travers Stakes (Sat. 4 p.m., CBS). America's oldest stake race described by Sportscaster Bryan Field from Saratoga...
...foot well, at an estimated cost of $50,000, seems decidedly remote. But to major companies with ample money and equipment, this is no great hardship. By last week, although none would admit as much-or much of anything-these companies looked like the major entrants in the forthcoming race for Cuba's oil: Atlantic Refining's subsidiary, with slightly under 740,000 acres in all provinces except Oriente; Cia Petrolera La Estrella de Cuba, subsidiary of Royal Dutch Co., with 44,460 acres in Havana and Matanzas provinces; Union Oil of Cuba, and Sinclair Cuba...
...Cuba was footing a dance to sugar millions. Jewels, silks, perfumes, palaces, race horses and solid gold plate were the order of the day. Oil companies, in step with sugar, leased thousands of acres for exploration. In May 1920, when the dance was maddest, people suddenly began to talk of Europe's next sugar-beet crop. By December the crop was a reality-nearly 50% larger than the year before. Cuba's boom was over; private fortunes went down the spout with the island's banking system; the dream of large-scale oil production faded and concessions...