Word: tack
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...like a fairy-book stepchild-sent out as a breadwinner in 35 overnight races and minor stakes when he was only two years old. As a three-year-old he was entered in a claiming race for $6,000, but no one wanted the homely little son of Hard Tack...
...free-speech issue is child's play compared to the brass-tack problem of carrying New Jersey for the New Deal, and last week Franklin Roosevelt sent his No. 3 Cabinet officer, Secretary of War Harry Woodring, to Hudson County to do business with Boss Hague. The occasion was a rally for the Senate candidacy of William Harvey Johnson Ely, who has been administering WPA in New Jersey and who, though a Hague protege, has promised to be a 100% New Dealer. Secretary Woodring's business with Boss Hague was to find out whether, in return for continued...
...understood that Harlow, members of the team, William Bingham '16, Tack Hardwick, former Harvard All-American player, and Dean Hanford will be among the speakers. It is expected that the band will be present to lead songs...
...even this sturdy son of Hard Tack would not have enjoyed crosscountry travel 25 years ago, when most thoroughbreds were shipped in boxcars attached to slow freight trains. Today horses travel in specially built, steam-heated horse cars attached to first-class passenger trains, have all the comforts of their home stables...
...Conductor Stokowski received two U. S. newspaper correspondents, but again refused to answer questions about Actress Garbo. "I have a right to my private life when I want it," said he. "One must think in solitude to create. That is what I am doing now." The reporters tried another tack, asked him his favorite cinema stars. Stoky chose Charles Boyer and John Barrymore. Asked for his choice in actresses, he shook his head, "Let's go to another subject...