Word: rider
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...week, at Maryland's Pimlico race track, U.S. fans for the first time will see a woman riding in a professional race. She is apple-cheeked, 29-year-old Judy Johnson, of Bethesda, Md., who has convinced the Maryland Racing Commission that she is as good a steeplechase rider as any jockey in the business...
Transfer. In Summerberry, Sask., a freight train frightened a horse, which bolted into the train, threw his rider, James Hollingshead, safely on to a passing flatcar, backed away, fell dead...
...House last week gave Franklin Roosevelt one of the sharpest rebukes ever dealt a U.S. President. The Disney rider passed, 268-to-129, repealing Franklin Roosevelt's directive of Oct. 3, 1942, which clamped a $25,000-net limit on salaries...
...wanted to repeal the $25,000 salary ceiling in such a way that Franklin Roosevelt could not veto the measure. His problem was solved when the Administration asked legislation lifting the statutory debt limit to $210,000,000,000. To the Administration's bill, Disney tacked on his rider...
Died. Captain Stephen Hulbert Avenel Haggard, 31, writer-actor son of Sir Godfrey Digby Napier Haggard, British Consul General in New York; grandnephew of Author H. Rider Haggard; in an undisclosed battle area. He appeared with Ethel Barrymore in 1938's Whiteoaks, same year attracted attention with his first novel...