Word: alabama
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Said Johnny Evers: "Alabama won't have to worry about a job. If they won't let him play, we'll find some other...
...Society was ever sincere in its boasted readiness to rehabilitate a young criminal who wanted to go straight Alabama Pitts certainly seemed in line for such social rehabilitation. His offense had been relatively trivial. He had paid for it by five years in prison. He was now eager to make a fresh start. To that end therefore, he accepted the offer of a $200-per-month job with the Albany Senators, International League baseball team, of which famed Johnny Evers* is general manager. But even before Alabama Pitts left Sing Sing, President William G. Bramham of the National Association...
...stealing $59 from an Amsterdam Avenue grocery store. Three of them received short jail terms The fourth, one Edwin Collins Pitts of Opelika, Ala., had carried a gun. For his first robbery he was sentenced to from eight to 16 years in Sing Sing. Convict Pitts, as "Alabama" Pitts, became a star player on the prison's baseball and football teams. News stories about Sing Sing's games against local teams of semi" professionals, firemen and police made him a U. S. sports celebrity. Last week his term shortened by behavior so exemplary that he had become, besides...
Awards were also made to Charles W. Bailey, University of Alabama; Charles E. Buchwald, Union College; Albert R. Christlieb, Northeastern; Henry T. Ell, Rutgers; Elmer H. Everett, Northeastern; George H. Hammond, Tufts; Albyn Macintosh, Colorado College; Robert I. Sarbacher, University of Florida; Paul E. Seufer, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Francis W. Steele, Rensselaer Ellis A. Tarlton, Yale; Richard S. Wellons, Georgia School of Technology; and David C. Wiggin, Jr., Tufts...
...bacteriological discoveries then pouring from the laboratories of Germany. With a medical degree from University of Virginia, he spent a year abroad, returned to become professor of pathology, then professor of medicine in Birmingham Medical College. After that College had become the postgraduate department of the University of Alabama, Dr. McLester became professor of medicine there. In passing he investigated and became a foremost authority on nutrition and diet in health and disease. "Nutrition and the Future of Man" is the subject of his presidential address next week...