Word: macke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week, Owner Yawkey closeted himself with Manager Joe Cronin. then handed Philadelphia's Cornelius McGillicuddy ("Connie Mack") $200,000 plus two players for Slugger Foxx and Hurler Johnny Marcum. Next month Yawkey will probably pay Mack another $200,000 for Infielder McNair and Outfielder Cramer. With Foxx at first base, with his accurate home-run eye fixed on Fenway Park's short left-field fence, dopesters figure Boston the most likely outfit to topple the World Champion Detroit...
Tigers. Scared by the size of Yawkey's purse, the Tigers' manager, Mickey Cochrane, wangled Outfielder Al Simmons away from the Chicago White Sox for $75,000. Almost certain to earn the cellar position are 73-year-old Manager Mack's hapless Athletics. Of the regular team which won him the World Series in 1929, he has now sold the last member, must, as in 1923, completely rebuild...
...John E. Mack of Poughkeepsie, one-time Justice of the New York Supreme Court, is the original Roosevelt man. He picked Franklin D. Roosevelt as a candidate for the State Senate in 1910, nominated him for the Presidency in Chicago in 1932. For more than a year Judge Mack has been counsel to a joint legislative committee investigating New York State public utility holding companies. He it was who, after trying in vain for six months to locate Associated Gas & Electric's Howard Colwell Hopson, aptly quoted from The Scarlet Pimpernel last summer...
...Scarlet Pimpernel hasn't a damned thing on Hopson," cried jolly Judge Mack...
...more interested observers than a young politician named Olin Dewitt Talmadge Johnston across the Savannah River in South Carolina. No sooner had he entered his State's Legislature in 1929 than Representative Johnston began charging the head of South Carolina's State Highway Commission, potent Ben Mack Sawyer, with political skulduggery. Next year he ran for Governor with the slogan "Out with Tsar Ben Sawyer," was barely beaten. Olin Johnston, a quiet-spoken, dignified one-time textile millhand who earned his way at college as a pants-presser by day, a proofreader by night, bided his time, improved...