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Said President Frick: "I am quite impressed ... I see no handicap to the players ... I'm not sure that the attendance is due to the novelty ... I believe we will have more...
...Education Hans Schem, killed in an airplane accident, once to do the same for the late Marshal Pilsudski of Poland. It had welcomed the newly elected delegates from the Saar making their first appearance in the Reichstag since the War, and had thundered applause when Minister of the Interior Frick announced the completion of Germany's new conscription law (see col. 1.). Then cried Premier Göring: "Der Führer has the floor!" Adolf Hitler almost jumped from his chair to the rostrum where he unfolded his speech amid a din of clapping and cheers. For exactly...
...Cincinnati Reds and the Philadelphia Phillies is about the least exciting spectacle that the major leagues can provide. Nonetheless, in Cincinnati last week 20,000 spectators-about 900% more than normal-crowded Crosley Field to examine such a contest. In the crowd were baseball dignitaries like President Ford Frick of the National League, President William Harridge of the American League. Signal for the performance to start was not the umpire's cry of "Play ball!" but another gesture, equally perfunctory but far more impressive-the pushing of a button in Washington by President Roosevelt. What made the subsequent proceedings...
...made a total that the worshipful minds of art students could not embrace. Nearly every picture was priceless, not for sale, beyond reach of the millions of a Mellon, Frick, Morgan or Widener. At the opening notables made conventional little speeches of Franco-Italian handholding. Their banalities could not obscure the splendor and magnitude of the event. Last week a tourist in Paris could see in a day in the Petit Palais what in any other year would have taken a summer's zigzagging over the face of Europe...
...National League, under its new president, Ford Frick. last December decided to try an experiment it had been anxiously considering for three years. This summer, in Cincinnati and possibly Chicago and St. Louis, major-league teams will play night games by floodlight for the first time. Harried by financial difficulties, the Boston Braves threatened to turn their park into a dog racetrack. The plan was abandoned. Instead President Emil Fuchs persuaded the New York Yankees to give him Babe Ruth...