Word: rider
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This sounded as if most of Mexico's Catholic population were in danger of being excommunicated but in fact no Mexican was last week excommunicated and avoided. To any such high threat of absolute wrath, the Church adds a sober, realistic rider. Last week Archbishop Diaz pardoned in advance Government employes who keep their jobs because they cannot find other work, parents who send their children to proscribed schools because the truant officer forces them to. The Church wants loyal Catholics but even more it wants live Catholics...
...young Walter Lohmann in his first Manhattan appearance, fell off his bicycle and broke his collarbone less than an hour after Jack Dempsey had fired the starting gun. Temperamental little Alfred Letourner, furious with his onetime teammate, harassed Marcel Guimbretiere mercilessly until that rider withdrew, 15 laps behind. For periodic sprints, spectators offered, instead of the customary $25, miscellaneous premiums: a dozen lobsters, a dinner with champagne, a set of tires, a red rose, a return bus ticket to Buffalo...
...that most men selected as Prohibition agents, and transferred last year from the Department of Justice's Prohibition Bureau to the Treasury's Alcohol Tax Unit, were Republicans, Tennessee's wrinkle-faced old Senator Kenneth Douglas McKellar at the last session of Congress adroitly tacked a rider on the Emergency Appropriation Act. It stipulated that the 1,195 investigators and special investigators (salaries: $2,600 and $2,900) transferred to the Alcohol Tax Unit would have to stand a competitive examination with all comers for their jobs. Civil service officials loudly protested the injustice of making...
...pneumonia; in Manhattan. In 40 years of cartooning for many a newspaper including the New York World and the Brooklyn Daily Eagle, Macauley popularized Theodore Roosevelt's "Big Stick," won a $500 Pulitzer Prize (1929) for "Paying For a Dead Horse"-a drawing of a dead horse, a rider staggering under a burden labeled "Reparations...
...from her own estate at Middleburg, Va., Mary Harriman Rumsey, chairman of the NRA Consumers' Advisory Board, was riding in the Piedmont hunt when her mount stumbled and threw her. An expert rider, Mrs. Rumsey was not spry enough to extricate herself before the horse rolled on her. broke her thigh and four ribs. Rushed to a Washington hospital, she was given a blood transfusion, reported "getting along nicely...