Word: gannett
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Gone are such luminaries as Artie Johns, Lupe Lupien, Dick Grondahl, Slim Curtiss, and Bob Gannett--not to mention Rud Hoye and Joe Soltz, dependable outer gardeners. In addition, an appendectomy has forced right fielder Bill Tully to drop out of school this year. All told, Stahl is left with Captain Tom Healey and Bob Fulton as his only experienced battery, shortstop Fred Keyes, and left fielder Gene Lovett...
Candidate Gannett proposes to stake his campaign on the proposition that the New Deal should be pretty generally liquidated, that: "The nation cannot live half collectivist and half free." So said he this week at a monster testimonial dinner in Rochester's Powers Hotel, where his candidacy was formally announced. "I ask by means of this letter to be counted in," wrote upstate New York's potent Congressman James W. Wadsworth (see p. 18), whom Publisher Gannett helped turn out of the U. S. Senate in 1926. An interested if distant observer in Washington was Frank Gannett...
...Newspaper Guildsmen, who were having a row with Mr. Gannett, later protested that signers did not know what was on the scroll, resolved: "The Guild . . . hereby does condemn all efforts to cajole, trick or threaten workers...
ROCHESTER, N.Y.--Frank E. Gannett, newspaper publisher, speaking at a testimonial dinner tendered him here tonight, said that he will accept the pleas of "men and women high in the Republican party" and will be a candidate for the Republican nomination for President on a platform pledging preservation of democracy "along with prosperity...