Word: howe
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first day only one lady broke 80. She was Mrs. Edward L. Howe of Princeton, N. J., who posted 79. The following day, while the majority of players were dampened by an annoying drizzle (only four broke 90), Mrs. Howe ran away from the field. Her 36-hole total of 159 set a new record for the U. S. Women's Senior Golf championship...
Setting records is nothing new for Mrs. Howe. As Dorothy lona Campbell, she won the U. S. women's golf championship in 1909, the year she came to the U. S. from her native Scotland. As Dorothy Campbell Hurd (after marrying Clubman Jack V. Hurd of Pittsburgh), she established the greatest record of any woman golfer in the world: three Scottish championships, two British championships, three U. S. championships, three Canadian championships, and winner of an average of 20 tournaments a year since she won her first prize in 1895. Now married to a Princeton banker, Dorothy lona Campbell...
...without a commentator until Mutual's Publicist Lester Gottlieb called in a friend, Quincy Howe, who had rarely been heard over radio before. After a 15-minute audition of comment on fake news bulletins, Howe was hired and told to report at once. Little, loquacious, quick, Quincy Howe is the author of the satire England Expects Every American to Do His Duty. MBS was afraid he was too inexperienced, but after breezing through his first broadcast without a hitch, he remarked casually: "I was grateful that I got off on the nose...
Susceptible Mr. Downey will be opposed for the Senate in November, incomplete returns indicated, by Republican Philip Bancroft, 57, an American Legionnaire and lawyer (Harvard), son of famed His torian Hubert Howe Bancroft. For 20 years well-to-do, wavy-haired Lawyer Ban croft has interested himself in raising pears and walnuts across the Bay from San Francisco. By his activities in Associated Farmers of California, which fought unionization of farm workers, he has earned the enmity of Labor. He has urged that to obtain local Relief, "Californians" be required to prove five years' residence; for old age pensions...
...opposition by obtaining a last-minute switch of the Louisville delegation. His campaign for Governor began as soon as he started presiding over the Senate. Whenever Governor Ruby Laffoon left the State, Lieutenant Governor Happy played Governor. Among other smart tricks, he made Jim Farley and the late Louis Howe honorary colonels...