Word: commoner
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...being devoted especially to the promotion of peace through education. Prof. Gilbert Murray of Oxford. President of the League of Nations Committee of Intellectual Cooperation, warned against expecting too much from teaching citizenship, foreign languages, or from travel. He concluded. "... A better road to international goodwill is to cultivate common memories, associations, and aims. That is. to cultivate such subjects as ancient history, Latin, or physical science...
...hitting and is bored by the old-fashioned "pitchers' battle." No one has ever yet booed a homerun and certainly the greatest crowd-getter in recent years has been Homerunner Ruth. The question raised against the "lively" ball seems only to be whether homeruns may not become too common. In a Brooklyn-Pittsburgh encounter lately, nine homeruns were hit in one afternoon...
...National League has a more hectic race, with Pittsburgh and Chicago popping in and out of first place. Last year's Champion, the St. Louis Club, is a poor fourth, mostly through collapse of the pitching staff. The New York "Giants" are third but here again the common ailment of poor pitching has been a grave handicap. Pitcher Grimes, whose fine work has held up the Pittsburgh Club, last week had his thumb dislocated by a fast liner. If he is long on the bench, the Chicago Club should be the next champion. Outstanding Chicagoans are Infielder Rogers Hornsby...
Last week, however, John North Willys disappeared from the automobile world with the sale of his entire Willys-Overland holdings (some 800,000 shares of common). Nor did any one individual take his place. Purchasers were a combination of Chicago and Toledo interests. The Chicago interest was Field, Glore & Co., acting for Chicago Corp., the Midwest investment trust organized last winter (TIME, Feb. 25). Election of Charles F. Glore and Marshall Field III to the Willys-Overland directorate will be one immediate result of the transaction. The Toledo purchasers were headed by George M. Jones, wealthy head of Toledo...
Prosperous during the War, the company slumped in 1919, passed common dividends from 1920 to 1928. In 1928 prosperity had returned to the extent of $187,223,388 sales and a net income of $5,904,701. During the first quarter of 1929, Willys-Overland sold 92,000 cars, compared to 70,000 for first quarter...