Word: dodger
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...182Pitcher Fred Frankhouse of the Brooklyn Dodgers, tailenders in the National League: a no-hit, no-run baseball game (called because of rain after seven innings), against the Cincinnati Reds, 5-to-0; the first no-hit game in the National League this year; at Brooklyn, N. Y. Last Dodger to record a no-hit performance was famed Dazzy Vance in September...
...kinds that were illegal evasions. One speech of his was regarded as such valuable advice on how to save on taxes that Manhattan's Chemical Bank published and circulated it. Washington watched alertly to see if some of the mud kicked up by the President's tax-dodger hunt might not land in New Dealer eyes...
Born. To Grover Cleveland Bergdoll, U. S. Wartime draft dodger resident in Germany, and Bertha Bergdoll: a daughter, their fifth child, the first born in the U. S.; in Philadelphia...
...berserk athlete was Outfielder Leonard ("Len") Koenecke, 31, onetime railroad fireman noted among his Brooklyn Dodger teammates for his muscular torso, his pugnacity, his inability to hold hard liquor. Last week he was given his paycheck in St. Louis, where the team was playing, told to go home to his wife and child. Disconsolate at this dismissal, he started drinking on the way, was ejected from an American Airliner at Detroit. There he hired Pilot William Joseph Mulqueeny and his friend Irwin Davis, a professional parachute-jumper, to fly him to Buffalo. At 10 p. m., they took...
...Fortnight ago a beauteous young German woman arrived in the U. S. with two little girls in blonde pigtails, a flaxen-haired boy waving a U. S. flag, a babe-in-arms. They were Dodger Bergdoll's wife & children, come to visit his 76-year-old mother in Philadelphia and petition the Federal Government to pardon him, give back his confiscated $800,000 fortune, let him return to the U. S. a citizen. The Government promptly indicated it would do no such thing. In Germany this week Fugitive Bergdoll announced he would surrender to the U. S. and stand...