Word: billing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Series of 1919. That they are the experts' choice this year is due to: 1) the ablest pitching staff in the league (headed by Paul Derringer, Lee Grissom, Johnny Vander Meer); 2) some of the best hitters (Batting Champion Ernie Lombardi, Ival Goodman, Frank McCormick); 3) Manager Bill McKechnie...
Most baseball fans agree that mild-mannered Bill McKechnie did the most amazing managerial job in the major leagues last year when, in his first year with the Reds, he brought them from the cellar to fourth place-only six games behind the pennant-winning Chicago Cubs. They might have won the pennant had not Pitcher Lee Grissom, rookie prodigy of the year before, broken his ankle in a stupid attempt at base-stealing toward the end of the season...
...Wild Bill" Wasserman started his business career with a $1,500,000 nest egg his father made manufacturing carpets. He has substantially enlarged it by managing two investment trusts, the Investment Corp. of Philadelphia and the Delaware Fund, Inc., and by using his sharp eyes in a number of ways. In 1931, for example, he took a look at Russia's bumper wheat crop, concluded that it would depress the world market, and took a short position in sterling that netted...
...kind of international banker who, during crises, will spend a day at transatlantic telephoning, Bill Wasserman since the first of the year has traveled 18,000 miles, poking his head into various high places in search of useful information. At No. 10 Downing Street, London, in the office of Neville Chamberlain's economic adviser, Sir Horace Wilson, Banker Wasserman engaged in a conversation that last week proved highly interesting to the U. S. According to Mr. Wasserman, Sir Horace told him that at the outbreak of war the British Government would take over all the U. S. securities held...
...Tucson, Ariz., Marjorie Volke set out for a drive, noticed a traffic ticket under her automobile's windshield wiper. Without stopping her car she reached for the ticket, skidded into a hydrant, released a geyser. Autoist Volke's bill (for the hydrant...