Word: grimm
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...world. In 1920 he was $400,000 in debt, by 1926 was a millionaire in his own right. Early in 1932 he bought a controlling interest in Pacific Western Oil Corp., a rich California producer. He put his father's executor, H. Paul Grimm, in as president. Pacific Western was Oilman Getty's springboard to big Tide Water. Pacific Western dipped into surplus funds, bought 360,000 shares of Tide Water Associated Oil Co. common stock at depression prices while Mr. Getty and other Getty interests acquired 500,000 other shares. Tide Water directors quickly...
...orld's Fair, has become an annual feature of the big-league season. This year 16 players for each squad were selected by newspaper polls, five more by the manager of each side. Two million readers from 42 states sent in votes. Last week. Managers Char lie Grimm (National League) and Joe Mc Carthy (American League) announced their starting lineups...
...heavily. Undiscouraged, they duplicated their stunt a few minutes later (see cut), this time bringing down Cecil Yates with them. Helped to their cots, where they were thoroughly lubricated and bandaged, they soon joined the chase again. Vopel, still reckless, next collided with Torchy Peden. Over them tumbled Testa, Grimm, Wissel and Carpus. Led to their cubbyholes to be patched, they resembled plucked fowl, with splinters projecting from legs and back sides. Next day the crowd watched a greater number of even more spectacular spills. Six riders withdrew from fatigue. By the third night wild jams, blown tires and careless...
...demoralized them (TIME, Oct. 14). Last week, in Chicago, baseball's Tsar Kenesaw Mountain Landis announced the penalties for such misbehavior: $200 fines against Umpire Moriarty and Baseballers Elwood English, Bill Herman, and Bill Jurges for "vile, unprintable language"; a $200 fine against Cubs' Manager Charles Grimm, for remaining on the field after Umpire Moriarty had ordered...
...played in Chicago, Umpire Moriarty, who functions in the American League during the regular season, called the National League Cubs' First Baseman Phil Cavarretta out in a close play at second base. When the Cubs protested. Umpire Moriarty retaliated by roundly abusing the whole team, ordering Manager Charles Grimm off the field. After the game Manager Grimm made the remark that came closest to being the 1935 World Series classic: "If a manager can't go out and make a decent kick, what the hell is the game coming to? I didn't swear...