Word: races
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...year term-but not with leap-year elections. -Last March, the U. S. Supreme Court declared such courts unconstitutional. The referendum would have made such courts constitutional in Ohio. *Machines in which betters place their money on their chosen horses, receiving tickets in return. The betting odds of each race are figured by the machines in ratio to the total amount bet on each horse and winners cash in their tickets at these odds, which are not announced until after each race. The machines also figure out a percentage for their operators, and for the State...
...after five days' illness, of pneumonia. His father, Anthony N. Brady, (died 1913) accumulated $80,000,000 by organizing public utilities and on the Stock Exchange; the son, with his brother Nicholas F., increased the family fortune. He supported many charities, chiefly Catholic; once he sold all his race horses and gave the proceeds away. For his benefactions Pope Pius XI made him a Knight Commander of the Order of St. Gregory and a private chamberlain of the Cape and Sword; last December King Vittorio Emanuele of Italy made him Knight Commander of the Crown of Italy...
...Peabody Museum is awaiting the arrival tomorrow of 100 skeletons, shipped from Merida, the capital city of Yucatan, by permission of the Mexican Government, in the interests of a study of race mixtures being conducted by the authropology department of the Museum...
Since the Yale cross-country race the Freshman harriers have been allowed a two week rest, while football and crew men have been allowed one week before signing for winter sports...
Crews B and C, stroked by J E. Lawrence '31, and John Fox '31, were abreast at the finish of a one mile Freshman practice race yesterday afternoon...