Word: camp
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Weighing 216 pounds, George Herman Ruth, 35, joined the Yankee training camp at St. Petersburg, Fla., to start his fourteenth year in pro baseball. Dazzy Vance, Brooklyn pitcher, held out for a new contract at $20,000 a year, insisted on a clause that would allow him to play golf for one day after each game he pitched. "I lose," he said, "about twelve pounds in every game...
...That some 400 high school students are to attend a national high school orchestra summer camp on Lake Interlochen, near Traverse City, Michigan. Director Joseph E. Maddy of the Public School Music Department of the University School of Music at Ann Arbor will be in command. All students of good standing are eligible...
...negro employees of the Pittsburgh Terminal Coal Corporation, who were returning to their homes from work, were fired upon by a party known to be a striking miner, one of the negroes being, wounded; that, upon his being taken to his home, a number of negroes in the camp, enraged thereby, started a retaliatory move against the strikers, and that, after this fracas was over, one of the negroes, at the point of a gun, was compelled to sign a so-called confession dictated to suit the purposes of the striking miners...
...inventor he does not disparage him, does not deal in little white dogs. Financier Aldred backed Mr. Gillette when he was a poor Socialist. On him he conferred eternal youth, insofar as that can be done by printing upon millions of razor-blade cartons a picture of King Camp Gillette taken in 1901. Today Mr. Gillette has prospered so greatly that he owns a California estate where cattle and oranges are bred and grown "for fun." He was pleased last week by the value of one hundred cents set on Gillette patents. The chief effects...
...Thus is injustice done to inventors. Was injustice done, last week, when Chairman John E. Aldred of the Gillette Safety Razor Company announced that the value of its patents had been suddenly written down from $3,459,500 to $1? Did that imply that the ideas of Inventor King Camp Gillette are now worth one hundred cents...