Word: racing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...black race has decreased relatively for the last 20 years. The Negro population is about 12,000,000. It increased only 650,000 in the decade between...
Thirty thousand people crowded about the race track at Tia Juana, Mexico-famed drinking, gambling spot for southern Californians and visitors-to witness the rich Coffroth handicap. Among the spectators were noted fighter Jack Dempsey; his wife, movie-actress Estelle Taylor; a host of lesser celebrities, foretelling spring fashions from Paris...
...field of 18 thoroughbreds, best horses in training, started. Sir Harry, big chestnut colt owned by the Seagram stables, was first to thunder past the finish post, a half-length ahead of Dangerous, his only serious competitor. The race carried a net value of $84,400* to the winner...
Vaudeville audiences, connoisseurs of good juggling, have long agreed that Japanese and seals possess unrivaled coordination of mind, eye and muscle. Last week at South Vancouver, B. C., one K. Kanaka, Japanese golfer, smiled broadly, having brought new honors to his race. Playing over the Canadian Pacific's Langara course he had established what was considered a record; had made two "holes-in-one" in a single round...
...hired able defense counsel, headed by Senator James A. Reed of Missouri (TIME, March 7), for whose sharp tongue and inquisitorial powers many a lawyer yearns. The defense contends that there is no need of Mr. Ford taking the witness stand or of dragging in the question of race prejudice. Said Mr. Reed: "Neither the principles of co-operative marketing nor the Jewish race is on trial. . , . We are accused of libeling Mr. Sapiro, and it is therefore his work and the plan which he expounded, that we seek to test. We claim that he was selfish in his motives...