Word: chattanooga
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...average bleacherite, Joe Engel is best known in another capacity, as the Barnum of Baseball. During the past ten years, ever since he was put in charge of the Senators' Chattanooga farm club, strange tales have floated up from the Tennessee hills. On opening day, Engel had his players parade into the ball park on elephants. He traded a shortstop for a turkey, roasted it and served it to local sportswriters who had been "giving him the bird." He raffled off houses and automobiles, had canaries singing in the grand stands. When the New York Yankees went to Chattanooga...
...Engel decided that he wanted to buy the Lookouts. He did not have enough cash. So he got 1,700 fans to chip in, buy the club for $125,000. That year, attendance tripled. The fan-owned Lookouts made a profit of $50,000. The following year Chattanooga won another pennant. But last summer, lured by the intriguing water sports at newly opened TVA Chickamauga Dam, only seven miles outside the city, Chattanoogans deserted Engel Stadium in droves...
Assigned to active service last week was Colonel Julius Ochs Adler, U. S. Army Reserve Corps, general manager of the New York Times, publisher of the Chattanooga Times. Called at his own request, Colonel Adler forthwith gave himself a one-year leave of absence from both his papers. This week he took command of his post: the reception centre for draftees at Fort...
Last week Publisher Julius Ochs Adler (who is also general manager of the New York Times) announced a new afternoon paper for Chattanooga: the Evening Times, to compete with Grocer Roy McDonald's News-Free Press (also for Willkie...
...late, great Adolph Simon Ochs started at 15 as a printer's devil on a Knoxville paper, worked for a while on Watterson's Courier-Journal, acquired the Chattanooga Times in 1878 (when he was 20) with $250 of borrowed capital. In Chattanooga, Publisher Ochs amassed the fortune with which he bought the New York Times 18 years later...