Word: racing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Soon a Democratic legislature will convene. Surrounded by Democratic Philistines, Governor Sampson was not, however, shorn by a Democratic Delilah. Hampered in obtaining legislation, he can still veto legislation. Governor Sampson was elected because Governor Fields wanted to smash the betting machines at Kentucky's race track. Many a Democrat voted against this threat to Kentucky tradition, remained party-faithful to the rest of the Democratic ticket. Before leaving office, Governor Fields did support two Kentucky traditions. In six weeks he pardoned 148 convicts, sitting up long past midnight to dictate his reasons as required by law.* Law does...
...current issue contains a bird's-eye view of the Business School, the Stadium and the new baseball cage; also a hither to unpublished photograph of the Harvard and Yale University crews taken at The Hotel Griswold several days before the annual race...
Last week's race was won by Freddie Spencer & Charlie Winter. U. S. riders, tying with Faudet & Marcillac, Frenchmen, but pocketing the prize by virtue of a higher point total for sprints throughout the week...
Veteran addicts agreed the race was the most spectacular ever ridden in Manhattan. Necessarily slow hours of daytime and early morning riding were followed by wildest maelstroms every evening. Nearly every team in the ride led at one time or another. The winners were once five laps behind. The stunning swirl of darting, stumbling, riders that follows every attempt at a stolen lap was virtually continuous through the evening-hours when the crowd is thickest. 360 laps were stolen by the teams in six days; the old record...
...With this standardization as a basis, we are now laying a foundation for a business of international proportions, which we do not expect to be stopped by barriers of trade, race or language. Already we have established profitable factories in Canada, England and Australia, in addition to our nationwide distribution of plants in this country. Other foreign factories will be built...