Word: rans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Roosevelt. Last year he committed political suicide for the nth time and found a more striking way to do it. Refusing nomination on either Republican or Democratic tickets, he waited until both parties had chosen candidates and it became as difficult as possible for him to win. Then he ran for re-election as an independent and won handily...
...jockey's collarbone. Airilame was defeated for the first time, and all three Vanderbilt entries in a third race inexplicably failed to live up to expectations. At Saratoga, an epidemic of coughing ruined the chances of the promising Vanderbilt string of two-year-olds. Then Good Harvest ran a piece of timber through his chest that killed him. Discovery, theretofore the most dependable horse in the U. S.. ran so badly he had to be retired. Last week, at Santa Anita's opening, Vanderbilt horses failed to finish in the money...
Last week, the Cuban Senate rudely impeached President Gomez (see p. 18). Two days later his Sports Festival started off serenely enough under the new Government. With 3,000 spectators squealing joyously. Sprinter Owens ran 100 yards on the cinder track beside the Tropical Stadium football field in 9.9 sec. His opponent, a mediocre racehorse named Julio McCaw started 40 yards behind Owens, gained ground by cutting across a curve onto the football field, finished second...
Motoring through Long Beach, Calif, to address a mass meeting of striking Pacific seamen, Strikeleader Harry Bridges ran down and killed 8-year-old Joe Miranda, was released on a writ of habeas corpus in time for another speaking engagement in Los Angeles...
...writer for the U. S. Press. In annual salary ($260,000), and in readers reached (an estimated 30,000,000 a day), Arthur Brisbane far outstripped any other columnist. No less than 1,200 weekly papers carried his "This Week" contribution. Some 200 dailies beside the Hearstpapers ran "Today." As editor of the Hearst tabloid New York Daily Mirror, Mr. Brisbane turned out eight columns of special editorials a week. And every week in the Sunday Hearstpapers, Pundit Brisbane furnished the text for an illustrated page which dramatized some tremendous, if obvious, thought, or outlined the contents of a classic...