Word: steers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...press conference that it was his 15Oth since he entered the White House. "I congratulate you on your endurance," remarked the President. The correspondents chorused: "Same to you, Sir!" But the President was not in a humorous mood. He taxed the reporters for giving the country a "bum steer." The reporters countered by asking if Mr. Roosevelt now had anything specific to say about his future money policies. Impatiently the President told them: "I am neither a prestidigitator nor an astrologer." Forthwith he denied that he and Senator Bulkley had talked about anything except Ohio politics. Any impression that...
...professional wrestler would run away from a Brahma steer which weighs 1,000 Ib. and has horns a foot and a half long. No polo player in his senses would risk his neck on a bucking-bronco. A cowherd who tried to milk a wild cow would promptly have his brains kicked out. Performances like steer-wrestling, bronco-riding and wild-cow milking were a part of the World Series Rodeo that arrived in Manhattan last week for a stay of 19 days at Madison Square Garden. Grand climax of a circuit that attracts more than 3,000,000 customers...
...campaign of propaganda for all private charities. At its head, as he had been under President Hoover, was able, eloquent Newton Diehl Baker of Cleveland, Wartime Secretary of War. The mobilizers gathered first on the White House lawn for a greeting from the President. His job was difficult: to steer the sentiment of the country back to the Hoover philosophy of voluntary giving while continuing the Roosevelt practice of direct relief based on involuntary taxation. Declared the President...
...England ever wants any more cowboys she'll have to raise 'em," angrily declared U. S. Rodeoist Tex Austin as he docked in Manhattan. He estimated that he had lost $200,000 on his show in London because the British Royal S.P.C.A. had him arrested for "terrifying" a steer, because fox-hunting Britons had boycotted his "refined rodeo...
...There is no record of a prizefighter's trying it. However Max Baer, while helping his father in the butchering business in California, sometimes slugged cattle unconscious by punching them in the short ribs. Jack Dempsey, the late James J. Corbett and other pugilists have tried their hand at steer-knocking in the Chicago stockyards. The knocker wields a 3-lb. hammer, swings it down on the steer's skull, just above and between the eyes. The object is not to kill but to stun the animal to facilitate shackling for slaughter. It is a feat of skill rather than...