Word: fla
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...National League Phillies, both rated as likely tail-enders in their respective leagues, began a three-out-of-five-game series for their city championship. In Tulsa, Okla., the world champion New York Yankees won their 13th straight game, 8-to-3, against the Tulsa Oilers. In Daytona, Fla., the St. Louis Cardinals started north via a miserable record of four victories in 14 exhibition games...
Married. Mrs. Clara Louise Saltmarsh Westinghouse, widow of Board Chairman Henry Herman Westinghouse of Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Co. who invented the single-action steam engine and whose Brother George invented the air brake; and John Franklin Miller, 78, Westinghouse vice chairman; at Bradenton, Fla...
Died. Mrs. Marie Tinette Haughton Spaeth, 67, painter, wife of President John Duncan Ernst Spaeth of the University of Kansas City, Princeton's longtime English professor and crew coach; after long illness; in Sarasota, Fla...
Died. Albert Bigelow Paine, 75, biographer crony of Mark Twain, member of the Pulitzer Prize Novel committee since 1929; after a month's illness; in New Smyrna, Fla. At 24 he started a photographic supply business in Fort Scott, Kans., met William Allen White with whom he collaborated on Rhymes by Two Friends, first book of both. He once wrote a biography of the late Banker George F. Baker of which only six copies were published, one for each member of the family...
...Boston Red Sox baseball team broke training at Sarasota. Fla., started north without Manager Joseph Cronin, whose wife had twins (boy & girl) born Shortstop Eric McNair, whose wife died in childbirth at Meridian. Miss.; Sec-Baseman Oscar Melillo, whose wife suttered a relapse in Chicago following the birth...