Word: fields
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week, 40,000 Brooklyn baseball fans crammed Ebbets Field and 20,000 were turned away. What they had come to see was Boss MacPhail's first big innovation-the first major-league baseball game played under floodlights in New York City.* With his customary extravagance, Larry MacPhail had made the baseball game an incidental of the evening's entertainment. He had invited famed Olympic Sprinter Jesse Owens to do his stuff before the game, had hired two fife & drum corps and a couple of brass bands. At 9:45 when the grandstand customers who had paid...
Married. Joanne Bass, 22, daughter of New Hampshire's former Governor Robert P. Bass; to Marshall Field Jr., 22, Harvard senior, grandson of the late Chicago Financier Marshall Field; in East Walpole, Mass. Like his friend John Roosevelt (see p. 9), at whose wedding he ushered two days before his own, he received his Harvard degree in absentia...
...affiliates (to Chairman John L. Lewis, its record was "magnificent"); its struggle first for existence, then for recognition had become a fight for better contracts; it had become an innovator in union procedure; it had gone beyond business unionism to fight for its program in the political field...
...industry both come to heel, SEC's next major move is the long-awaited regulation of investment trusts. After three years' study, SEC last week sent Part I of its report to Congress, will send other installments this summer, later recommend legislation. Largely a survey of the field, Part I produced the following gloomy statistics: 1) since 1929 assets of investment trusts have shriveled from $7,000,000,000 to $3,700,000,000; 2) of 1,272 investment companies existing at one time or another between 1927 and 1936, only 961 were still active...
...eighth inning Harvard recovered from its lethargy when Shean, drawing a pass, legged it for third as Johns boosted a two bagger close to the foul line in left field. Lupieh walked, but all three were stranded when Jubitz fauned pinch hitter Bacon and Grondahl, and then forced Hoye to drive out to Loveday at second...