Word: april
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Hector Dowd is slated to get the call for starting hurling duties against the Crimson today with Johnny Desmond as his battery-mate. Bill Cerny, victim of the tenth-inning splurge on April 15 which netted Harvard eight runs, and George Smith are ready to do relief work if Dowd fails to go the route...
...anticipated Crimson victories on the Southern trip during the spring holidays Kept Indorse by the wintry March weather and forced to practice at night in dusty Briggs Cage, the squad was raw and unorganized when it hit the Dixie trail on April 1. The Pennsylvania, Maryland, and Navy tens which faced the Crimson had been outdoors for over month; thus it was no surprise when they gathered a total of 33 points as against 0 for the players from Cambridge. The series, however, gave the squad some much-needed outdoor contact work, and, when they began outdoor workouts...
...Hound of the Baskervilles (Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce; TIME, April...
...fortnight by Stockholder Arthur C. Flatto, who popped up at the annual meeting (at which President Roy Barton White announced a 1938 loss of $1,637,000). Mr. Flatto declared he had proxies representing 250,000 shares and did not like the present management. After a stormy session (TIME, April 24), the meeting adjourned while the proxies were counted. Last week President White announced that the management slate received 531,812 votes, the Flatto opposition...
...Detroit, Hotel Manager William 0. Seelbach, thinking (with a wink) to insure the city against rain during an outdoor industrial exhibition, invited 67-year-old Rain Maker Lillie Stoat of Oxford, Miss. (TIME, April 10) to come to Detroit while the show was on, without her umbrella. Rain Maker Stoat refused to come. It rained and snowed...