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...clever parliamentary maneuver that the group in favor of the oath managed to stop the measure dead in its tracks. After a rising vote in which members of the upper house voted 17-17, President Wragg broke the deadlock by speaking up for repeal. Immediately Senator Halvey of Rowley who had abstained from voting on the first and second readings recorded himself as against the bill...
...Jewish observance of the 150th anniversary of the Constitution in Faneuil Hall this Sunday, Albert Bushnell Hart, Eaton Professor of the Science of Government, emeritus, will be among the list of speakers, it was revealed yesterday. Other lecturers include Roger W. Straus, Governor Hurley, Mayor Tobin, and Samuel H. Wragg, president of the State senate...
...leaders while first Cockpen, then Lord Derby's Portofino. then Dastur took the lead. With a furlong and a half to go, Dastur was still ahead with Miracle running second and April the Fifth third. In black & pink, Jockey Fred Lane on the Walls horse and Jockey Wragg, riding Miracle, challenged at the same time. For an instant, the three horses were running head to head in an utter silence that had fallen when the crowd saw that Orwell had been left behind in the straightaway. April the Fifth crossed the finish first, less than a length ahead...
...pacemaker in front of the chasing horses with the tiny bright-colored jockeys pressed against their necks. The crowd that had been yelling Iliad home stared as a new horse moved out of the pack-Blenheim, the Aga Khan's second-stringer. Surely, easily, Blenheim, ridden by Harry Wragg, who won the Derby in 1928 with Felstead, crept up, then moved in front, by a shadow, by a nose, then by a good length, crossed the line, with Iliad second, Diolite a staggering, gasping third...
From a box near the Prince's, Sir Hugh Cunliffe-Owen, a tall, grey-haired man, wearing a white top hat and a flower in his buttonhole, pressed through the crowd to congratulate his jockey, Henry Wragg. Owner of Felstead, Sir Hugh, collected a winner's purse of $55,000. Others, humble people carrying on difficult, dull lives, with no time to go to horse-races, had won more heavily than he on Felstead. A sailor named Masten Webb on a freight ship getting into the port of Columbo held the winning ticket, worth...