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Biggest fine ever assessed in U. S. history was the $29,000,000 penalty which Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis slapped on the old Standard Oil Co.-a fine which was never paid. Last week President Roosevelt came near Judge Landis' mark. By canceling all airmail contracts he in effect fined the stockholders of U. S. aviation companies an estimated $20,000,000, all because of the dubious methods employed by some of their company officers getting airmail contracts (see p. 30). There was a good chance, moreover, that, unlike Standard Oil, aviation stockholders would pay, for with air contracts...
...cash and Catcher Charles Berry in trade. The baseball meeting in Chicago also: ¶Adopted a uniform ball for both major leagues. The new ball is practically the same as that used by the American League, supposedly livelier than the National's ball. ¶Voted white-crowned Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis a new seven-year contract (his third) as baseball commissioner at $40,000 a year...
Third Game-At Washington's Griffith Stadium, President Roosevelt & party occupied a box behind the first base line. When President, officials, players, band and photographers were set for the ball- throwing ceremony, the President asked, "Where's the ball?" White-crowned Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis slapped his pockets, looked hopefully at Clark Griffith, owner of the Senators, who looked helplessly at John J. McGraw, vice president of the Giants, who frantically signalled a policeman. The policeman ran for a ball, tossed it to the President. Right arm upraised, President Roosevelt grinned for photographers, then sang out: "All right...
...absolute "tsar" is the only good solution. Rubber companies recently sought George Taylor Bishop as their ruler (TIME, April 18). Oil has often been on the verge of appointing one. The prime examples of U. S. business tsars are cinema's Will H. Hays, baseball's Kenesaw Mountain Landis...
Professional baseball is as highly organ-ized an industry as any in the U. S. It has laws of its own and a government to administer them, headed by its own fuzzy-haired Tsar, Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis. Tsar Landis and owners of baseball clubs had good reason last week to sigh a big sigh of relief when they learned that, by withdrawing an action known as "The Bennett Case" from the U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Chicago. Club-owner Philip De Catesby Ball of the St. Louis "Browns" had spared them the necessity of testing...