Word: winn
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...planned to open up the day after the ban was lifted, found trouble getting help to man the mutuel windows and hot-dog stands, settled for an unceremonious start on V-E day plus seven. ¶ Non-profit-making Keeneland will usher in Kentucky's season. Colonel Matt Winn hemmed & hawed, regretted that unbeaten Pavot was not among the 155 Derby eligibles, finally scheduled the 71st Derby for June 9. ¶ Baltimore's Pimlico planned to top an abbreviated ten-day meeting with a one-day special show on June 16. On that day, Pavot is scheduled...
...Colonel Winn's American Turf Association still owns Chicago's Lincoln Fields, Kentucky's Churchill Downs and Latonia race tracks...
...original Washington Park. When he was seven, little Benny began to hang around the track, was given odd jobs such as checking the horses at the drinking trough on Derby day. Five years ago, Lindheimer's persistent hobby got the better of him. Hearing that Colonel Matt Winn* wanted to sell Washington Park (gradually being overshadowed by Chicago's newer, swankier Arlington Park), Lindheimer bought controlling interest in the track, became its managing director...
When Huey Long was practicing oratory and salesmanship on the hillbillies of his native Winn Parish, Sam Jones was going to high school in the sleepy cattle town of DeRidder, 15 miles from the Texas line. When Huey was making a name for himself as a young lawyer, handling compensation cases for hillbillies hurt in Winn Parish's new lumber mills (1915), Sam Jones was working his way through Louisiana State University. When Huey Long was baiting the Interests-especially Standard Oil-claiming draft exemption because he was a notary public, and proclaiming that only suckers would fight, plodding...