Word: macke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hoof, owners of National and American League baseball teams got together in Chicago's Palmer House last week to haggle over players. When the trading was over, two men had made the biggest news: Thomas Austin Yawkey, 30, baseball's youngest tycoon, and Cornelius McGillicuddy ("Connie Mack"), 71, baseball's oldest, most famed manager. Connie Mack's news was sad, but inevitable. His Philadelphia Athletics lost $190,000 last year, and Philadelphia bankers were pressing payment of $250,000 in notes. Also some $45,000 was needed for spring training. Old Connie Mack...
Last week Jim and Susie decided to get married. For altar they chose a well beside a tree in a nudist colony near Elsinore, Calif. To perform the ceremony they chose Rev. Clarke Irvine of the Temple of Nature Church. For their attendants they chose James Mack as best man, Constance Alien as maid-of-honor. For wedding clothes they chose nothing...
Broadway to Hollywood (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). Five years ago, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer made an expensive musicomedy called The March of Time, decided it was not worth releasing but a shade too good to shelve.* After endless ineffective tinkering, Willard Mack and Edgar Allan Woolf rewrote the story. MGM selected a new cast. Broadway to Hollywood is the result. The few remaining shots from the old film-a technicolor ballet executing a blurred march down an exaggerated stairway-might better have been left out. Based upon the tedious conviction that there is nothing quite eo glamorous as a vaudeville actor...
Alfred E. Smith accepted chairmanship of a board of directors which included Clendenin J. Ryan Jr. & Allan A, Ryan Jr. (cousin and brother of Fortune Peter Ryan), John Hay ("Jock") Whitney, Howard G. Gushing, Major Talbot O. Freeman, A. Newbold Morris, Walter S. Mack Jr. and other socialite young businessmen. They formed Federal Broadcasting Corp. to operate station WMCA in New York City, hoped to form a chain of eleven stations extending as far west as St. Louis. President of the company is John T. Adams, former associate of Donald Flamm, owner of the station. Object : to make a good...
...sons to work under Arthur Sweetser in the information section of the League. While there, he recruited a baseball team from League attendants, with himself as pitcher, played a Japanese team and was roundly trounced. One of his great good friends is Philadelphia's famed Baseball Manager Connie Mack, who was awarded the Bok prize for outstanding service to the city...