Word: als
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Al Jolson, $200,000 by Warner, for his picture-after-next, Show of Shows...
...pennant, probably lost it by starting the season with oldsters Ty Cobb, Tris Speaker and Eddie Collins in his lineup.† About the middle of the season, Manager Mack put in youngsters, made up much lost ground. This year he has had his youngsters-notably Jimmy Foxx, Gordon Cochrane, Al Simmons-in action all year, and with superlative pitching from Pitchers Grove and Walberg, and good pitching from Pitchers Earnshaw and Quinn (Quinn is another relic of spitball days) he is far and apparently safely in the lead. The New York Club, winner in 1926:27-28, is a good...
...Last week French customs agents noticed white powder seeping from packing cases addressed to Sirdar Al Ghulam Nabi Khan, Afghan Minister in Paris, just appointed Ambassador to Moscow. Four cases were seized, found to contain $33,000 worth of heroin...
Died. The Rev. Dr. Hugh Birckhead, 52, rector of Emanuel Church, Baltimore, onetime assistant, later successor, of the Rev. Dr. William Stephen Rainsford (longtime [1882-1906] rector of St. George's Church, Manhattan, worship-place of John Pierpont Morgan et al); in Newport...
...multiply its motor registration by four in the next ten years. Nevertheless, U. S. motormen feel the "outside" world is the next great world to conquer. Just as Mr. Macauley considers that he has well established the Packard in the U. S., he?and General Motors, Ford, Chrysler et al.?can do it all over again abroad...