Word: rodeos
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...head of fractious livestock and 200 cowboys and cowgirls clattered into New York's Madison Square Garden last week for the 12th annual World's Championship Rodeo, one important face was missing, the fat, wrinkled features of Promoter William T. Johnson. After eight years in his highly speculative business. Promoter Johnson had sold his rodeo livestock, equipment and Garden contracts, (New York and Boston), retired to devote all his time to his three great ranches in Texas. His former roaring, rollicking exhibition, however, went right on last week to shatter last year's attendance records...
Died. Mrs. Elizabeth Ann Gomez, 67, mother of ace New York Yankee Pitcher Vernon ("Lefty") Gomez; in Rodeo, Calif...
...that the 13th win might be a hard one to add to. A believer in astrology, he regarded the approach of Finsler's Comet with apprehension ("Comets and left-handed pitchers don't go well together"). His mother, of whom he was very fond, lay ill in Rodeo, Calif. Four times he had tried to win his 14th game and failed-twice against Chicago, once against Detroit, once against Philadelphia. He had sped by plane to California for a bedside visit, had sped back East to take his turn on the mound...
...been accomplished was a single-handed display of the Garner political acumen and parliamentary power that topped even his masterly obliteration of the original Court Bill last month (TIME, Aug. 2). Two minutes after the Bill had passed, a dozen Senators, admiring as much as amused by the Garner "rodeo" tactics, gathered to congratulate him and each other. Across the chamber, Senator Guffey was still flushed and angry. The Vice President walked over to console him by suggesting jovially that if he had served in the House during the Garner Speakership, he might have been better used to such procedure...
Died. Pete Knight, winner in the last twelve years of more rodeo titles and prize money than any other bronco rider in the world; of internal injuries after being tossed from "Slowdown" at the Hayward, Calif. Rodeo...