Word: rodes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first time since public alarm persuaded him to give it up in 1929, the Prince of Wales rode to hounds, with the Belvoir Hunt, near Melton Mowbray. Beside him rode his brother, Prince George. Galloping across a ploughed field, George's horse stepped into a watery ditch, somersaulted, pitched George on his left shoulder, which was dislocated...
...aproned waiter in a Toulouse cafe. A little influence kept him out of the trenches, got him a berth in a munitions factory. After the War he started speculating. Financiers doubted last week whether he ever actually made much money, but with all the nerve in the world he rode high on the wave of French inflation, established Banque Oustric et Cie, later was able to buy control of the Banque Adam, the oldest bank in France. Then his method was the old established one of buying out a number of companies in the same industry-shoe companies were...
Died. Clarence Kummer, 31, jockey who won many a great horserace on Man O' War, Exterminator, Audacious. Snob II, Ladkin; of pneumonia after weakening his vitality by dieting; in Jamaica, L. I. Disqualified in 1927 for rough riding, he was reinstated, rode his last race...
Employee Whitehead who rode his bicycle down the right-of-way to her house.* But she is no expert on M-K-T affairs. Her appointment is not without a sentimental connotation. Railroads usually look after their own (often an executive's wife receives one year of his salary upon his de mise) and Charles Whitehead was well-liked throughout the Katy. Mrs. Whitehead's job is described as helping the Katy in "interpreting the woman's viewpoint," suggesting niceties of passenger travel, perhaps even soliciting freight from businesswomen. Mrs. Whitehead lives in St. Louis, likes...
...races won by Frenchmen Letourner & Guinbretiere in Pole-filled Chicago have weakened such suspicion. In one way undoubtedly Tsar Chapman can shape his races-he teams the riders. Anyone who objects to being teamed the way he wants has no way of protesting, since Chapman controls the business. He rode races himself till 1903, then managed tracks in Butte and Salt Lake City, slowly expanding. Every year he goes to the Paris races, picks out European riders and persuades them to come to the U.S. by guaranteeing them $100 to $1,000 per day while racing. Prize money for last...