Robert Landry didn’t need much time to realize Weyburn was a special horse even though he finished out of the money at first. “Weyburn had shown signs of having some ability very early in his training, once he started working you could see he had a lot of natural talent,” said Landry, general manager of racing operations for Chiefswood Stables in Schomberg, Ontario. “He had trained well up to his first race and the result was disappointing, but that does happen a lot with first time starters. “The first race seemed to pick his head up, the addition of blinkers also got him more forward.”
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Before service in World War II, before being a Texas Longhorn, before being a New York Yankee (football) and a New York Giant â the first and legendary coach of the Dallas Cowboys, Tom Landry, flew planes all around our area as a part of his United States Army Air Forces training at then Eastern Oklahoma A&M College at Wilburton.
By the end of his sophomore college football season, still stuck on the jayvee squad, Landry was looking beyond Austin to uncertain horizons, which he would be able to see from above, in a cockpit of a Flying Fortress of his own. In February 1944, the call-up came and he found himself hopscotching the country from Wichita Falls to San Antonio, to receive escalating levels of training, then to Eastern Oklahoma State College for actual flight lessons.
This article is part of the Free Speech Project, a collaboration between Future Tense and the Tech, Law, & Security Program at American University Washington College of Law that examines the ways technology is influencing how we think about speech.
On Nov. 20, 1938, WMCA in New York had enough of Father Charles E. Coughlin’s anti-Semitic bile. After a supposed homily entitled “Persecution: Jewish and Christian,” in which he denounced Jews in language that might have been lifted from Der Stürmer, an announcer broke in to distance the station from Coughlin’s talk. “Unfortunately, Father Coughlin has uttered many misstatements of fact,” he informed listeners. Donald Flamm, the president of WMCA, later pledged “not to permit a repetition” of Coughlin’s inflammatory remarks, words that were “calculated to stir up religious and racial hatred and dissension in this country.”