Word: rider
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Near Red Bank, N. J., on the estate of Amory L. Haskell, Temple Gwathmey, 23-year-old gentleman rider and socialite, was thrown by his horse Brown Ruler in the Holmdel Steeplechase. Rushed to a hos pital, he soon died of a broken neck...
During the rush hour one morning last week in Manhattan, President Frank Hedley of Interborough Rapid Transit Co. boarded one of his own subway express trains at 14th Street like any other nickel-paying subway rider. As the train hurtled downtown, Mr. Hedley smelled smoke. About the train curled acrid yellow fumes. President Hedley did not need to be told something was seriously wrong. He at once took mastership of the situation. Shouldering his way through the pack of nervous passengers to the front car, he told the motorman to stop beside a local at the Bleecker Street station...
...Adopted (120-to-114) a conference report on the Home Loan Bank bill with its currency expansion rider; sent it to the President...
...Passed a bill providing for a Home Loan Bank System, with a rider for currency expansion; sent it to the House...
...less-a privilege now limited to 2% gold bonds. Senator Glass estimated his amendment, offered as a substitute for the House's Goldsborough Bill to inflate commodity prices by deflating the dollar, would bring out $995,000,000 in new currency. Twice the House refused to accept this rider to the Home Loan bill. Thrice the Senate refused to accept the bill without the rider. After hours of night haggling, the House finally, with only four votes to spare, gave in to the Senate and both bill and rider went to the White House...