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Two notable figures ride floods into calmer times
A portrait of Col. Matt Winn shaping Kentucky racing as Churchill Downs reopens with a $50,000 purse while past floods ease. Dr. William R. Valentiner affirms a Rembrandt, and Pedro Albizu Campos faces jail amid Puerto Rican unrest as Consolidated News Features notes.
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Aristides
Kentucky Jockey Club
Noah
James Butler
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Butler
Charles Evans Hughes
New York State
Juarez
Mexico
Illinois
American Turf Association
Chicago
Laurel
William R. Valentiner
Detroit Institute of Art
Juno
New York
Valentiner
Metropolitan Museum
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