Word: filles
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...fill in at shortstop, Huggins bought the services of one Lynford Lary from the Oakland, Calif., club for a reported price of $75,000. Florida sunshine, however, revealed serious faults in Lary's fielding. What to do? A young man on the substitute bench, Leo Durocher, had the answer. Durocher is 23. He did not cost $75,000, nor one-tenth that much. He has been on the Yankee "Yannigan" string for several years. Huggins liked him because he was alive. When the oldtimers "rode"' Durocher he talked back. He even wrote them fresh letters...
...Morton? If my recollection serves me right, Mr. Morton was Secretary of Agriculture instead of the Interior under Mr. Cleveland. In fact, Mr. Morton was the first Secretary of Agriculture, as the department was created under the administration just preceding Cleveland, who was the first president to fill that important department. In addition to being the first Secretary of Agriculture, Mr. Morton was a pioneer in the development of Nebraska City, having founded a packing industry in that city, which is still in operation. He was also father of Arbor Day and induced the Nebraska Legislation to establish that...
Last week President Hoover appointed French Strother, California Democrat, to this post of research and literary secretary. Mr. Strother will burrow through many a tome to fill the Hoover speeches with new and illuminating facts. No one more than the President knows the value of judicious publicity and the White House press relations staff will do all it can to suppress the customary tittle-tattle that surrounds the Presidency by offering instead good substantial material for publication...
...which was mere by-play to fill an idle hour, because the Tycoons all declined their invitations, except Henry Ford, who toyed with the idea as a public possibility longer than the rest...
Phelps was a member of the Junior Eight who were elected of P. B. K. last fall along with 32 Seniors and who will choose the additional members to fill the quota. He is an editor of the CRIMSON...