Word: baiter
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...baseball player and manager; in his sleep; in Portland, Ore. In 1906, Fielder (his real name) Jones managed Chicago's "hitless wonders" White Sox team (batting average: .229), won a World Series from the Chicago Cubs whose infield included Tinker and Evers and Chance. Famed as an umpire baiter, he taught players such as Nick Altrock. Ed Walsh, Yip Owens, to steal bases, sacrifice. ¶Died. Horace Atlee Mann. 65, lawyer, politician; of heart disease; in Nashville, Tenn. Horace Mann was credited in 1928 with winning many a southern vote for Herbert Hoover, distributing anti-Catholic propaganda against Candidate...
Murdered. Augusto Cesar Sandino, "bandit" and U. S. Marine-baiter; in Managua, Nicaragua...
Fannie Hurst would have choired the paean with more gusto. Horatio Alger would have awarded his hero a more thoroughgoing financial success. But not even Zenith's Chamber of Commerce could have done a more wholehearted job of boosting than this onetime Babbitt-baiter has done...
Candidates McKee and LaGuardia were fighting the contest bitterly. LaGuardia accused McKee of hounding a Seabury investigation witness to death, of reinstating a dismissed assistant when the assistant threatened to report McKee's misdoings as Aldermanic President, of being a Jew-baiter, a foe of women's suffrage. McKee accused LaGuardia of being a Communist, a liar. Candidate LaGuardia re ported to NRAdministrator Johnson that a member of the McKee slate was using the Blue Eagle insignia on his campaign literature. General Johnson promptly ordered the practice stopped. Inquisitor Samuel Seabury, stumping for LaGuardia, declared that McKee...
...biggest, easily the world's most famed realtor, and many another tycoon of finance were to be found in the aldermanic chamber of Manhattan's City Hall. They were there to testify, not under subpoena, but on their own initiative-to argue with Samuel Untermyer, baiter of stock exchanges and great corporations. Mr. Untermyer had them at a disadvantage for he was there as New York City's financial adviser and dictator of Tammany Hall's financial policy. The galleries were crowded with brokers, bankers and utility...