Word: rowes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Early this year, Franklin Roosevelt firmly declared he would take no sides in this year's State elections. Last week, he broke this high resolve not of his own accord but because the principals in Pennsylvania's row about the Democratic gubernatorial nomination (TIME. Feb. 28) came to him for counsel. To the White House went Governor Earle, State Democratic Chairman David Lawrence. Publisher David Stern of the Philadelphia Record and Senator Joseph Guffey, presumably to get endorsement of a candidate. Said Governor Earle when the party emerged: "The President had only one suggestion. He said he needed...
Last year Stagehand finished his two-year-old season a maiden (a horse that has never won a race). But this winter, in the theatrical setting at Santa Anita, Stagehand blossomed into a star, won three races in a row. Racing fans all knew that the incomparable Earl Sande, most famed jockey of modern times, was Maxwell Howard's trainer. Because Earl Sande in his riding days had won 967 races (including three Kentucky Derbies and five Belmont Stakes), earned $3,000,000 for his employers, and had the reputation of being able to do more with a horse...
...national championship, held simultaneously, there was no such close competition. St. Paul's slim, slick Robin Lee, 18, won the title for the fourth year in a row...
...Eton-trained, 26-year-old Robert Grant III, Manhattan stockbroker: the U. S. amateur racquets championship for the second year in a row, trouncing Joseph Richard Leonard of Tuxedo, N. Y. in straight games in the final, 15-6, 15-8, 15-4; in Manhattan. In two years of stiff competition, during which he has won the U.S. and Canadian Singles twice, the Tuxedo Gold Racquet tournament twice and the brand-new open competition for the Clarence Pell Cup, Champion Grant has not lost a match, has lost only four games...
...until last year was the mechanical cotton chopper good enough for commercial success. Today, it comes in two sizes, a one-row machine which can chop twelve acres a day, a two-row machine which will chop 25 when pulled by a team, four acres an hour when pulled by a tractor...