Word: richest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last week from the North, badly disorganized by the Japanese punishment they have taken. At latest dispatches Nippon's advancing war machine had crossed the border into Shantung, and War Lord Han was racked by a dilemma in which he stood to lose one of China's richest plums, a flourishing province worth at least $20,000,000 yearly to even a Governor reputed "honest" like...
...Price Headley's Menow, with Charley Kurtsinger up: the $76,000 Belmont Futurity, world's richest race for two-year-olds; in 1 min., 15 1/5 sec., to set a new world's record for 61 furlongs; with Tiger and Fighting Fox in a photograph finish four lengths behind; before a closing day crowd of 30,000; at Belmont Park, N. Y. To home-bred Menow, who has won only three races in six starts this season, last week's victory brought $56,800 to make him leading juvenile money-winner with a total...
Solemn young Byron Nelson of Reading, Pa.: the $12,000 Belmont Open, world's richest tournament for professional golfers; defeating his neighbor, Henry Picard of Hershey, Pa. in the final, 5 & 4; in a driving rainstorm; at Belmont. Mass. Runner-up Picard's $2,000 share of the purse upped his season's winnings to $9,916, second to top money-winner Harry Cooper of Chicago who has accumulated $12,973. Nelson's winning share, $3,000, put him in fifth place...
...Government had rusticated on the Canary Islands, was expected to play a part, but a minor one. On the word of the cocksure conspirators that the whole rebellion would be over in two weeks-make it a month and be sure- most of the financial backing came from the "Richest Man in Spain,'' Monarchist Count of Romanones and racketeer-tycoon Juan March, the uneducated, onetime tobacco smuggler. Date of the uprising was set for July 25, 1936, the feast of Santiago (St. James). The murder of Fascist Deputy Jose Calvo Sotelo on July 12 pulled the trigger prematurely...
...1825ky Larking, Mrs. Ethel Mars's two-year-old colt: the 33rd running of the Hopeful Stakes, richest ($31,450 to the winner) race of the Saratoga season; by three lengths over a field of top-notch juveniles; before a closing-day crowd of 20,000; at Saratoga Springs, N. Y. C. Bespectacled Stanley Wooderson. London bank clerk: a special mile race in 4:06.6, breaking the world's record of 4:06.8 set by Kansas' Glenn Cunningham at Princeton in 1934; to become the first Englishman in 55 years to set a new world...