Word: shannons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...forfeited if for any reason the horse named by the bettor fails to run) on the Kentucky Derby. Tom Shaw had such a busy summer at the New York tracks in 1934 that he took a holiday last winter, handed over his winter book to his longtime assistant Frank Shannon. A few weeks before the race, an attack of indigestion that sent Tom Kearney to the hospital was front-page news in St. Louis. Last week at the first Kentucky Derby he had missed for 30 years, he was represented by an employe, John Ticacy...
Winged Patriotism. Benevolent and Protective is the Order of the Elks-but not towards Communism. Last week, Michael F. Shannon of Los Angeles, newly elected Grand Exalted Ruler of the Order, winged into the air from Chicago. Clyde Pangborn and Col. Roscoe Turner were his pilots. Next day he was in Boston, the following day in Atlantic City where he conferred with other benevolent antlered friends. Such was only the beginning of a 10,000-mile air tour that will take him to Asheville, Dallas, Omaha, Colorado Springs, Salt Lake City, Portland, Ore., San Francisco and Los Angeles...
...time has come" cried Grand Exalted Shannon, "when the issue is between the Stars and Stripes and the Red flag." To the 500,000 Elks in 1,400 cities he was carrying orders...
Michael Joseph Curley strolled happily along the banks of the River Shannon last week. He gazed thoughtfully at the Irish farmhouse in Golden Isle, just outside Athlone, where he and his eight brothers & sisters were reared. He sat with closed eyes in a pew of little St. Mary's Church where, nearly half a century ago, he and a reedy-voiced youngster named John McCormack were altar boys together. He wandered in the ruins of the Clonmacnoise Abbey, just as he had wandered as a moppet, when the spell of the place impelled him to study for the priesthood...
...back anyone's candidacy for the governorship. Chief contender appeared to be Attorney General William A. Schnader, endorsed by the Mellon-Vare machine. His motto: "I refuse to sell you a gold brick." Among the rash of twelve other Republican candidates, most promising was Lieut. Governor Edward C. Shannon, a conservative out-state farmer with veteran backing. For Senator, Joseph Guffey, Democratic boss of the state, was whooping up his own candidacy. In 1890 he went to Princeton, met and admired Woodrow Wilson, made money in oil in Pittsburgh. He persuaded John Jacob Raskob that he could carry...