Word: vincent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week John Patrick O'Brien became the 101st Mayor of New York City. Before Tammany picked him for its docile dummy in City Hall vice James John ("Jimmy") Walker, resigned, vice Joseph Vincent ("Holy Joe'') McKee, acting...
Jockey Gilbert, 18, and Jockey Hank Mills, 17, who finished the season with 196 winners, erroneously credited Jockey Gilbert witha record, because he had ridden more winners than Jockey Lee Hardy in 1927 (207). In 1908, Jockey Vincent Powers, now trainer of Mrs. Payne Whitney's steeplechasers, rode 324 winners. Jockey Walter Miller, stable rider for the late James R. Keene, famed for his skill in handling mounts at the barrier, won 388 races...
Last fortnight The New Yorker printed a rimed petition to the Mayor of New York, addressed by Poet Arthur Guiterman in behalf of the City's begrimed public statues. Next issue appeared with a five-stanza reply in fluent doggerel, signed by smart little Acting Mayor Joseph Vincent ("Holy Joe") McKee, Excerpt: I too had noted the condition That caused you, Sir, to make petition. I've pitied Washington and Skene, As poor white marble turned to green, And Booth and Tilden, Grant...
...Matador Sidney Franklin (Frumkin), Actresses Ethel Barrymore and Louise Closser Hale, of pneumonia in Brooklyn, Manhattan and Hollywood respectively; Rear Admiral Richard Evelyn Byrdt of influenza, in Boston; Dr. George Edgar Vincent, 68, onetime President of Rockefeller Foundation and University of Minnesota, after an appendectomy, in Greenwich, Conn.; Norman B. Woolworth, cousin of the late tycoon Winfield (5 & 10¢) Woolworth. aboard his chartered yacht Cyprus, near Charleston...
John P. Morgan, Anne Morgan, Noel Coward, Calvin Coolidge, Mrs. Vincent Astor were asked for cards for the exhibit, replied that they had none to exhibit this year...