Word: ball
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Casey, Irish boss of the West Coast teamsters, fought to keep .his men out of the maritime strike, fought the general strike, rising in one meeting to cry: "Don't do it, lads. I know what it means." In the end the venerable old teamster had to play ball with the dynamic young longshoreman, and while they represented the two extremes of U. S. Labor they grew to have mutual respect for each other...
...south for a tryout with the Boston Braves. A big-time football coach saw him and sent him to preparatory school. Golf was Bull Moore's forte. His brother Harold, a church organist, was also a golf professional and had taught Bull the game. Bull would drive a ball out of sight and make any kind of trick shot with any kind of club. His short game was eccentric but he was plenty good enough to earn a living as a professional...
...Golfer. It is fundamental that the Professional Golfer must understand the basic principles upon which his profession is established; otherwise he cannot . . . work for the good of Golf." Last week this solemn creed was imputed a hollow mockery by the Federal Trade Commission in Washington, which accused the Golf Ball Manufacturers' Association, PGA, President Jacobus and several other members of an unlawful and discriminatory monopoly of the golf ball business...
Last year some 1,600,000 doz. golf balls were sold in the U. S. at a retail price of $9 a doz., wholesale of $5.60. To help finance its services, most of which are offered free, PGA sells golf balls through its members. The Golf Ball Manufacturers' Association includes many top-rank U. S. makers of sporting goods* and, according to the FTC, its members own or control almost every U. S. golf ball factory. Each member company in the association makes a number of balls stamped PGA which are usually of higher quality than balls bearing other...
...Those accused by the FTC: A. G. Spalding & Bros., N. Y.; John Wanamaker, Philadelphia; L. A. Young Golf Co.. Detroit; Worthington Ball Co., Elyria, Ohio; Wilson Sporting Goods Co., Chicago; U. S. Rubber Products, N. Y.; Dunlop Tire & Rubber Corp., N. Y.; Acushnet Process Co., New Bedford, Mass...