Word: winners
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Chief winner in the election: Governor Fielding L. Wright, a middle-of-the-road politician, who was easily nominated for his first full term...
...Springs was proud of Sid McMath, home-town boy, ex-Marine officer, winner of the Silver Star, courageous politician. As prosecuting attorney, he had broken the 20-year rule of Mayor Leo Patrick McLaughlin, whose bland refusal to enforce the law had made Hot Springs a sanctuary for every gambler, gangster and fast-dollar man in the country. As soon as he took office on the first of the year, the new prosecutor closed Hot Springs' gambling spots and got McLaughlin himself indicted for corruption in office. McLaughlin did not even try to run for reelection. Dopesters rated Sidney...
...Burlington, Vt., Governor Ernest W. Gibson, a city fellow, bravely entered a cow-milking contest, labored before 5,000 spectators, came out third & last. The winner, who milked with one hand, could show a half-pail. The Governor's two-handed take: two cups...
...start of the third heat, only two boats were left seriously in the running: Lombardo's limping Tempo and a Detroit entry which had stayed out of trouble, Miss Peps-V. Lombardo dropped out with a fouled oil line, and Miss Peps finished the winner by quasi-default, a sort of streamlined version of Aesop's tortoise. Miss Peps, however, had not exactly plodded. With a converted Allison engine (from a Lockheed P-38) under her hatch and a converted Army pilot in her cockpit, she had averaged 54.88 m.p.h. Curly-headed Driver Danny Foster finished after being...
...fallibility. Once around the three-mile course and slightly in the lead, Tempo VI hit a floating obstacle in the rough water, ripping the fragile skin off its starboard front sponson; Lombardo had to slow up to prevent shipping too much water. Notre Dame, the 1937 Gold Cup winner, went on to win the first heat, then had engine trouble and missed the second entirely. Albin Fallon's Miss Great Lakes had engine trouble, fell behind; three other boats dropped out altogether...