Word: bronx
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Against Impy are the remains of Manhattan's once-powerful Tammany machine, now run by Leader Carmine De Sapio, 44, and the venerable Bronx organization of Boss Edward J. Flynn, an old confidant of Franklin D. Roosevelt...
...anaconda. Stories of sucurīs 40 to 50 ft. long are common in Brazil, but they always turn out to be third hand, and neither the snake nor the actual person who saw it can be located! Some years ago, R. L. Ditmars, curator of reptiles at the Bronx Zoo and one of the world's foremost experts on snakes, made an offer of $1,000 for a skin in excess of 40 ft., but no such skin ever materialized. Dr. Afrānio do Amaral, director of the Butantan Institute (snake farm) in Sao Paulo, has reported...
...lobbying, talked it into prohibiting both inheritance and income taxes in Nevada. Then, well armed with the names and idiosyncrasies of wealthy prospects, he set out to sell bankrupt ranches as tax havens, and was soon transplanting millionaires to Nevada's soil-e.g., Bing Crosby, Max Fleischmann, Bronx Politico Ed Flynn, Automobile Magnate Errett Lobban Cord, Stock Broker Dean Witter...
Turnstiles & History. As the proprietors of an expensive ten-acre layout of steel, concrete and lovingly tailored grass in The Bronx known as Yankee Stadium, the New York Yankees Inc. are today full of a rich and understandable satisfaction. The Olympian Joe DiMaggio is gone, and there will never be another DiMaggio?just as there has never been another Babe Ruth or another Lou Gehrig (Yankees all). But with only one full season in the major leagues to his credit, Mickey Mantle already shows signs that he may be another Olympian in the making...
Help Wanted. That Mickey is now playing for New York is due partly to good Yankee organization, partly to good Yankee luck. Always conscious of the 67,000 seats in their Bronx ballpark, and of the fact that even their stars seldom shine for more than a dozen years, the New York club owners could well hang over Yankee Stadium the sign: HELP WANTED. In the late '40s they were sending the word down through their scouting and farmclub network (today: some 30 scouts, ten farm clubs) to find a new crop of infielders, outfielders, pitchers and catchers...