Word: score
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Second to the Bureau of Customs team was the White House Police team, whose towering Officer Roland G. Ford had second-highest individual score for all events, 1,186 out of a possible 1,200. The Treasury's six best shots will practice in Washington until next fortnight, when they go to the national championships at Camp Perry, Ohio...
...political quarterback Franklin Roosevelt returned on the U.S.S. Houston last weekend toward his "humiture"-ridden, politically fermenting country, he could have added up his political score, based on the week's primary elections in six States, about as follows: Kentucky-an all-important, extremely satisfying New Deal touchdown in the renomination of Majority Leader "Dear Alben" Barkley for the Senate...
Missouri - a field goal against the New Deal in the renomination of Senator Bennett Champ Clark. This adverse score was light because Senator Clark was not actively fought by Roosevelt & Co., and his two 100% New Deal opponents were worthy political nobodies. The heaviness (400,000 majority) of the vote for Senator Clark, who opposed the Court Plan, Reorganization and other Roosevelt legislation, could be ascribed to his strong Favorite Son position. Comfort for the New Deal could be found in the victory of Judge James M. Douglas of St. Louis, candidate of New Dealish Governor Stark for the State...
West Virginia - an easy first down, but scarcely a score, for the New Deal in the renomination of all six incumbent Representatives, all New Dealers. Three were unopposed, three opposed only weakly...
...Stadium, Albany. For his accomplishment, 240-lb. Babe Ruth, like every baseballer who gets a homer in Hawkins Stadium, received a case of breakfast food (Wheaties). ¶ The Gilmore: a new world's record for a five-man skeetteam; thus breaking their month-old world's record score (491 out of 500); at Los Angeles. New record...