Word: runners
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. John Burke, 78, Chief Justice of the North Dakota Supreme Court, North Dakota's first Democratic Governor (1907-13), onetime (1913-21) Treasurer of the U. S.; of pneumonia, following a lung operation; in Rochester, Minn. At the 1912 Democratic National Convention he was runner-up to the late Thomas R. Marshall for the Vice Presidential nomination. In 1922 he entered partnership with Louis M. Kardos Jr. in a Wall Street brokerage firm which soon failed, was exposed as a "bucket shop." Admitting that he had received $500 a week for the use of his name as "window...
...record made by Luigi Beccali of Italy in 1933. Stanford's 880-yd. relay team (James Kneubuhl, Ray Malott, Stanley Hiserman, Jack Weierhauser) scooted around the track in 1 min., 25 sec.-.8 sec. faster than the mark set by a University of Southern California team in 1927. Runner Weierhauser's tape-breaking for the world's record was not his only major feat of the day. As anchor man in the mile relay, the last event of the day, he outran University of California's Olympic Champion Archie Williams to give Stanford the ten points...
...conjectural: probably the East Indies. As a citizen of Manhattan, Kidd married a twice-widowed lady, built a house on the Hudson and traded in real estate. One of the lots he sold is now No. 56 Wall Street. When Trinity Church was being repaired, Captain Kidd lent a runner & tackle to hoist stones...
...Smith, who covered his mile in 4:14. At the Penn Relays a total of six meet records was set, of which one, in the Class B mile relay, was set by Elmer & Delmer Brown, with their teammates Johnny Stovall and Alvin Chrisman, a twin whose brother is no runner. Most famed name in the meet was that of James E. ("Ted") Meredith. Sixteen-year-old son and name sake of Pennsylvania's famed pre-War quarter-miler, he helped the Mercersburg Academy team place third in the mile relay...
...Northrop was pulled out of the mile run and saved for the two mile relay, leaving the field open for Bowdoin's Bob Porter and Rhode Island's Stan Holt, who ran to the tape together in a spectacular finish with the first Crimson runner, Bill Wright, well back in fifth place...