Word: roy
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...promotion scheme to attract other sportsmen to take out $10,000 memberships in the Grasslands Foundation. Partly it was a genuine attempt to give U. S. horses a test that would show what they might do at Aintrée. Entered were three good English horses-St. Roy, Kilbairn, and Man-amber. Best of U. S. entries seemed to be Stephen Sanford's Mount Etna and Mrs. Maud K. Stevenson's Alligator, winner of many jumping races, including the Meadow Brook, Rose Tree challenge and the Maryland Hunt Cup. Round Peytona Brook and over five fences the bobbing...
...session, adjourned. In the House, however, a rush of proposed legislation kept many a member in his seat. Evidence of inter-party truce (TIME, Nov. 17) was the presentation of an administration-backed $60,000,000 drought-relief appropriation bill by Democrat James Benjamin Aswell of Louisiana. Roy Orchard Woodruff of Michigan offered a bill to give the Federal Government jurisdiction over gangster murders resulting from illicit interstate negotiations. He said: "It is repeatedly charged that gunmen from one State are . . . imported into another State to 'put on the spot' . . . rival gangsters." Charles R. Crisp of Georgia introduced...
...scores of newspapers, urban as well as rural. But what put it over was not Chairman Legge's eloquence or the testimony of farmers with contented wheat-fed cows. The news-value was in a little item written for the first page by Farm Board Member Samuel Roy McKelvie, Nebraska's smiling one-time (1919-23) Governor. Mr. McKelvie described how wheat, good for kine and porkers, had also been found good for other of God's creatures, as follows...
...General Manager, where was Mr. Bennett? The Canadian Prime Minister whose welcome in London had been without enthusiasm was being royally feted in Paris. This was due to the wangling prowess of one of Canada's smartest sons, one of the most popular foreigners in Paris, Mr. Philippe Roy, Canadian Minister to France...
Mister, or rather Monsieur. Roy saw to it that Mr. Bennett (no Monsieur he) was banqueted first by the French National Association for Economic Expansion, then officially by Minister of Commerce Pierre Etienne Flandin, famed for his philippics against the U. S. tariff. With his usual candor Mr. Bennett said that what he was after was French orders for Canada's surplus wheat, and rumors were not long in growing that what M. Flandin was after was Canadian orders for French surplus wine. In recent years the French have shown a tendency to buy more wheat from Canada, less...