Word: oafish
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Dates: during 1941-1941
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...famed Idle Hour Farm, who took over the old course in 1925, turned it into a show place. The Colonel built up the New Orleans Handicap purse to $50,000 - the U. S.'s richest winter stake. Those brave days lasted seven years. Then Louisiana's oafish dictator, Huey Long, decided it was time for Bradley to go. Up went the Fair Grounds' real-estate assessment to prohibitive heights, and out went the Colonel...