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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...front cover) One night last week in Mexico City high Cabinet officials held clandestine conclave. Its object, according to the dispatches of correspondents, was to consider whether the Government's "Party of the Mexican Revolution"* should nominate General Lázaro Cárdenas y del Rio for a second term as President...
...Back in 1919, a young racehorse who was destined to be great, Man o' War, was led to the barrier for the annual Sanford Memorial Stakes at Saratoga Springs, N. Y. When the starting signal was given, Man o' War was facing in the opposite direction from his rivals. That was the only race Man o' War ever lost. The horse which beat him was named Upset. Since that day race fans have thought of the Sanford Memorial as the race in which Man o' War was licked by bad luck...
Once a year, in mid-August, the sleepy little village of Goshen, N. Y. becomes for a day the capital of the harness-racing world. There, along elm-shaded streets that were meant for its population of 4,000, 40,000 trotting-race enthusiasts, in carnival spirit, meander toward Good Time Track and the running of the Hambletonian, world's richest race for trotting horses...
...music in U. S. schools would agree that it is more fun to play in a juvenile band or orchestra than to listen to one. Twelve years ago in Detroit a mammoth orchestra of 230 high-school students, assembled and drilled for five days by a Rochester, N. Y. supervisor named Dr. Joseph Edgar Maddy, played before a national conference of music supervisors, amazed its much-assaulted audience by sounding not bad at all. Encouraged by the success of this National High School Orchestra, Dr. Maddy two years later founded a National Music Camp on property he bought, in collaboration...