Word: laurel
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...grey air. Troopers carried the coffin into the grey, unfinished Washington Cathedral. A dull light edged through the rose window, on the guard of honor, the Union Jack, the Ambassadors, the Supreme Court Justices, the generals, the Cabinet officers, the wreaths of chrysanthemums from President Roosevelt, of laurel and palm from King George VI. In the middle of the service there was a special prayer: "Most merciful and compassionate God and Father of all men, we commend to Thy loving care and protection the people of Great Britain. In this hour of their need do Thou strengthen and sustain them...
When most members of Congress were busy composing speeches for the benefit of constituents back home. Christy's thoughts wandered to the race tracks of Laurel, Bowie or Havre de Grace. Friends who thought his heart was in the right place never accused him of having his heart in his work. So when Louis Capozzoli decided to run for Congress from the Thirteenth District, Christy had no trouble making up his mind to retire. Louis Capozzoli was popular and might have been hard to beat. By retiring, Christy could continue as leader of Tammany Hall and go on dreaming...
...pride to the F.B.I. investigation of the Vultee strike and calls the strike Communists inspired. Representative Dies plans to conduct his own little "investigation" of the strike this next week. The public is being treated to the disgusting spectacle of a tragi-comic feud between the F.B.I. and the laurel-laden Dies Committee, over which of the two can conjure up the biggest bogey, with the tin cup of hysterically patriotic approval going to the winner. Chief among the side-line rooters are our patriotic business men who stand in high-minded solidarity in decrying any labor activity today...
Died. James Butler, 49, rich Manhattan grocery-store and real-estate scion, head of Empire City race track and co-owner of the Maryland State Fair track at Laurel; on the eve of the fall meeting at Empire; of a broken neck, when his horse failed to take a fence jump near Katonah...
...only six of the 45 big race tracks in the U. S. (Aqueduct, Belmont Park, Saratoga, Pimlico, Delaware Park, Laurel Park) can railbirds see the sportiest of all horse races, a steeplechase. Last week, when beautiful Belmont Park opened its 24-day spring meeting, most of New York's racing fans looked forward to seeing Bimelech and his high-toned contemporaries in some of America's most famed flat races. Dyed-in-the-tweed "regulars" were equally eager to scan the 1940 crop of jumpers...