Word: billing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...annual session at the Bradford Hotel, 20 ancients of the Grand Army of the Republic rose to their shaking feet, quavered a unanimous protest. In the State Legislature, a committee investigating subversive activities was given another month's lease on life, and Representative Francis X. Coyne introduced a bill to remove the tax exemption of any educational institution employing a known Communist or Fascist...
...Buffalo Bill's in 1913. Last one of any kind, the "101," had folded in 1931. Fired by the idea, the two of them decided to do something about it. Last fall Cook left Hornblower & Weeks, McCoy left Ringling Bros. McCoy threw $100,000 of his own money into the venture, acquired 51% of the stock. Cook approached 150 sportsmen and men of substance to buy the remaining 49%, landed...
What can you expect when a hockey team is managed by a baseball umpire? Such was the prevailing taunt among U. S. sport fans when the Chicago Black Hawks, managed by Baseball Umpire Bill Stewart, wound up the regular season four weeks ago with only 14 victories in 48 games. Ending in third place in their division of the National Hockey League. Bill Stewart's team just qualified for the Stanley Cup playoffs, but few insiders gave, them an outside chance...
What Manager Stewart had accomplished was reminiscent of the famed feat of Baseball Manager George Stallings, who in 1914 led the Boston Braves from last place in mid-July to a pennant and world championship in October. But Bill Stewart's achievement was in some ways even more remarkable, because: 1) he had led his team to a world championship in his first year as a hockey manager; 2) although a longtime hockey referee, he had never played the game except on Boston frog ponds, had never coached except at polite New England schools (including Radcliffe...
...cheers of the frenetic fans were an unfamiliar sound to the ears of squat, hardworking, 43-year-old Bill Stewart. Professionally accustomed to gibes and catcalls during a decade of umpiring, his nearest approach to popular acclaim was that, while coaching baseball at Boston University, he had made a catcher out of famed Mickey Cochrane. And Manager Stewart was a hero only for a day. After being kissed on his bald head last week by each of the whooping Black Hawks, who got $1,000 apiece for their victory, Hero Stewart went home. There he packed his blue-serge suits...