Word: fields
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Balloting. Thirty-four parties crowded the field, an average of slightly more than one political group per million Poles. To meet competition thus keen, the Sanatzia or Healthy Politics party, supporting Pilsudski, adopted quaint & questionable expedients...
...state prison at Wethersfield, Conn., is better than most. It is strikingly clean and kept in good repair by the inmates. Each cell has individual toilet facilities and a catalogue of the prison library of 5,000 volumes. There is also a baseball field, a brass band, a monthly newspaper of which Sheriff Simeon Pease is inordinately proud. Last week, two newspapermen took up residence behind Wethersfield walls, were forthwith made editors of the prison paper. Their flamboyant history led the inmates to anticipate a paper that would be edited with imagination, gusto, craftiness...
General Motors Corp. ("A family of products & people") last week made arrangements to enter another industrial field. The new product will be storage batteries, to be made in Muncie, Ind., in the manufacturing plant bought last week from Durant Motors...
...annual spring football practice will start on Monday at Soldiers Field at 2.30 o'clock, it was announced last night at the third of the informal series of football gatherings held last night in the Varsity Club...
Mike Meehan, once engaged in selling tickets at a New York theater agency, entered the lists this week in the field where Morgan, Hill, and Harriman have fought their battles; Michael J. Meehan, financial genius, emerged, a trifle dishevelled, but richer by several millions. All this is very pleasant and bewildering for him, but there is a little static in the news of his radio coup. No biographer has stepped forward to pen the life of the wizard. Of course, there are the columns of the press and they have done fairly well, but hurried reporters are not able...