Word: sire
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Tobacco Co., Manhattan Socialite E. Roland Harriman, Track Owner William Henry Cane of Goshen. N.Y. and John L. Dodge organized the Trotting Horse Club to revive a country gentleman's sport they feared was dying. For 53 summers the trotting descendants of the great U.S. trotter Hambletonian 10, sire of the 1850's, had pounded around the dirt tracks of the Grand Circuit: now bounded by Cleveland, Toledo, Salem, N.H., Goshen, N.Y., Springfield, Ill., Syracuse, N.Y., Indianapolis, and Lexington, Ky. The Trotting Horse Club members established as climax to the season the $50,000 Hambletonian Stake...
...legislative sire of the Federal Reserve System Senator Glass objected first to what he called having that independent credit establishment "degraded into a servile agency of the Treasury Department and used as a doormat." The least objectionable feature of the bill, he found, was the authority for the President to issue $3,000,000,000 in unsecured currency. But it was the proposal to permit the President to devalue the gold dollar that aroused Senator Glass to an eloquent pitch: "With 40% of the entire gold supply of the world, why are we going off the gold standard? Foreign governments...
...with her husband's, but at Glasgow, Del., does more about running the stable than her trainer. James Healy. When she acquired Kellsboro Jack -whose four-year-old brother Steeplejack II is owned by her husband-she was gratified because she had particular regard for his bloodlines (Jackdaw, sire. Kellsboro Lass, dam). Mrs. Clark is aunt to the Bostwick brothers, Pete and Albert. Their able riding is partly due to training they received from herself and Mr. Clark. Pete Bostwick, before he decided to ride Dusty Foot, had the chance to be Kellsboro Jack's jockey last week...
...frontier she was met by the Rumanian Train and brought secretly to a suburban royal villa without entering Bucharest. Possibly Dr. Maniu, always a stanch champion of Princess Helen, will manage to patch things up. When he broke with the King two years ago Citizen Maniu reputedly said: "Sire, you can never be crowned unless the mother of Prince Mihai is crowned as Queen by your side...
...band of brigands, attacked them singlehanded. He mistook the sails of a windmill for threatening giants, charged into them to his own near- destruction. After him on muleback plodded a faithful red-faced squire, but with all his remonstrating he had no more control over his crack-brained sire than did the cinemen trying to film the proceedings. The red-faced squire was old George Robey, famed British comedian, playing the part of Sancho Panza, and the rickety don was the great Feeder Ivanovitch Chaliapin, brass-lunged old Russian basso...