Word: trained
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sitting up in bed with his morning paper, President Roosevelt found a nasty story glaring him in the face. At a crossing just outside Washington a Baltimore & Ohio express train had whipped into a school bus, scattered the corpses of 14 youngsters over 200 yards of right-of-way (see p. 32). That news provided him with a jumping-off spot for a new task: the job of "personally" spending $4,880,000,000 on work relief. Same day he announced that $200,000,000 would be spent in eliminating grade crossings on main-line tracks...
...failed to solve spectacular murder cases: The Brighton Trunk Crime No. 1; the Brighton Trunk Crime No. 2; and the Case of the Waterloo Legs-limbs which, as Lord Beaverbrook's blatant Daily Express never tires of repeating, were found under the seat of a Waterloo railway train wrapped in a copy of the Daily Express...
...named Tullihoo, asked The Jockey Club to give her a trainer's license. The Jockey Club refused. A year ago, when several of her father's friends had assigned horses to her private care, Mary Hirsch began to feel that it was embarrassing to have to train them in her father's name. Last summer, after having been granted licenses in Illinois and Michigan, she again requested a license. Last week the stewards of The Jockey Club gave Mary Hirsch the first training license they have ever granted a woman...
...spends the morning at the track, goes to the races in the afternoon, to bed at 9. She owns three dogs: cocker spaniel, pointer and Dalmatian. She wants to stud)' aviation, has never ridden in the show-ring or to hounds. This summer she expects officially to train her own horses, Captain Argo and Terrific. Last week in Columbia. S. C. she said modestly: "I have a few horses which can run fast. If they escape illness and injury, I think they will win in New York this spring...
Last week, frisky as usual, Dizzy Dean pitched in an exhibition game against the University of Georgia, then went to a dance where he enjoyed himself so much that he missed the team's train. For that Manager Frank Frisch fined him $100. Later in the week Dizzy Dean announced he would retire...