Word: winne
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...official statement on the Dictator's death: "It . . . marks the passing of the greatest hero in the fight for the common rights of all the people of America.'' "The Kingfish" had no truer friend than Oscar Allen. Twelve years Long's senior, he had grown up with him in Winn Parish. Waxing wealthy in oil and merchandise, he had staked Long to his political start in 1918 when Long ran for a place on the Louisiana Railroad Commission. As Governor, Oscar Allen had been utterly subservient to Long, taken his cursings with a smile, contented himself with being what...
...Helen Reid's compact breast. Proud is she that no other metropolitan newspaper employs as many female executives. There are Mrs. Helen W. Leavitt, assistant advertising manager; Elsa Lang, promotion director; Esther Kimmel in charge of the Home Economics Department; Books Editor Irita Van Doren; Mary Day Winn, assistant fiction editor; Book Critic Isabel Paterson. And most important, presiding on the ninth floor, Marie Mattingly Meloney...
...responsible for making the Derby the racing classic of the American continent also has the distinction of having seen every Derby ever run. In 1875, 14-year-old Matt Winn sat in his father's grocery wagon and watched Aristides win the race. Grocery Boy Matt Winn became Matt Winn, merchant tailor of Covington, Ky. Twenty years ago, Tailor Matt Winn became Colonel Matt J. Winn, racetrack manager. In 1914 he upped the Derby's purse, steadily began to ballyhoo the race into a social and sporting extravaganza. Now, 73, Colonel Winn as president of the American Turf...
...since 1930, a sell-out is forecast for the Derby. Vice President & Mrs. Garner from horsy Texas and NRAdministrator Johnson, oldtime cavalryman, are scheduled to head the list of celebrities attending the race. "It looks like old times, and the Depression is drawing to a close," confidently observed Colonel Winn from the swivel chair in his office at the track last week...
Last year, on his Sabbatical leave, Kirsopp Lake, Winn Professor of Ecclesiastical History, made a literary pilgrimage to the Vatican Library, where he was given every facility to use the Pope's Five-Mile Shelf of church classics...