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Dates: during 1920-1929
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McCarthy is a quiet, unostentatious leader. He did not make a Big League name as a player. In the minor leagues he was considered a competent, not a brilliant infielder, but eventually he became a manager at Louisville (American Association). He began winning pennants. He attracted Tycoon Wrigley's eye. At Chicago he built carefully, and his final punch came with the acquisition of Rogers Hornsby, for whom he traded five players and considerable currency to Boston. The addition of Hornsby gives Chicago a "Murderer's Row" of batters comparable to the famed Yankee quartet of Ruth, Gehrig...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Again, Baseball | 4/15/1929 | See Source »

Jose Gonzalo Escobar, the Mexican rebel leader who has retreated with Fabian cunning half the length of Mexico, made a stand last week at Jiminez. It resulted in what Minister of War Plutarco Elias Calles called "the bloodiest hour in Mexican history...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Bloodiest Hour | 4/15/1929 | See Source »

Died. Francis King Murray, 33, of Andover, Mass., instructor at Phillips-Andover Academy, onetime Leland Stanford footballer and trackman, son of Dr. Augustus Taber Murray, leader of the Friends Church in Washington, D. C. (attended by President Hoover); of kidney disease; in Boston. Surviving him are his two famed brothers-Robert Lindley Murray, national tennis champion in 1918, now with Hooker Electrochemical Co. at Niagara Falls, N. Y.; and Frederick ("Feg") Murray, Olympic trackman in 1920, now an able cartoonist and sportswriter on the New York...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Apr. 15, 1929 | 4/15/1929 | See Source »

Said Mrs. Annie C. Bill, Parent Church leader: ". . . the implication that the truth found in Science and Health was wholly the discovery of Mary Baker Eddy must be withdrawn. This does not mean that I have in the slightest degree lost confidence in Christian Science. A dis- tinction must be made between the medium through which truth reaches the world and the truth itself. The truth I stand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Last Move | 4/8/1929 | See Source »

...revealed a new method of teaching sound citizenship to future citizens. The plan: to confront elementary school students with a problem requiring a moral judgment, to let the students, unaided, make their judgment. Dr. Jones relates a story such as: "When he was a child, the late great Labor Leader Samuel Gompers and his small cousin had to carry milk pails from the dairy to their farmhouse home. One day, the two boys quarreled about who should carry the heaviest pail. Neither would give in, both walked home emptyhanded. Spanked, therefore, and sent back for the milk, were Child Gompers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Good Citizens | 4/8/1929 | See Source »

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