Word: choses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...inherited $4,000,000 from his mother, who died when he was 15. Last month, on his 30th birthday, he got almost as much from the estate of his foster father who died in 1919. To help him run his team as vice president and general manager, Owner Yawkey chose Eddie Collins, famed second baseman and coach of the Philadelphia Athletics. They planned to retain Marty McManus who managed the Red Sox ably for the last half of the 1932 season, buy up enough players to put Boston-one of the most enthusiastic baseball towns...
Fourth "Corbett" to win a boxing championship,* Raffaele Giordano chose his pseudonym 13 years ago when, a newsboy who learned boxing in street fights, he was matched against a newsboy named Jeffries. James J. Corbett's brother ran a pool room; Raffaele Giordano bought his father a pool room out of his ring earnings, bought himself a service station when, after beating Young Jack Thompson in an overweight match, it began to seem likely that no welterweight champion would dare share a ring with...
...York World-Telegram's "All-American Radio Team," 127 radio editors in the U. S. and Canada last week chose...
...Harry Tammen had tongue in cheek when he chose the inscription for the Post's building: "O, Justice! When Expelled From All Other Habitations, Make This Thy Dwelling Place." Fred Bonfils thus expressed the aim of his Foundation: "Better homes . . . better schools . . . greater morality and more widespread regard for the love of God and the Gospel of Christ...
Vexed by the Senate's action, airmail contractors were not shocked. Aware that airmail is a potent means of Administration publicity and patronage, they chose to regard the Senate's action as 1) a slap at Postmaster General Brown and 2) a determination to let the incoming Administration get full credit for whatever is done about airmail in the next four years, extensions or economies...