Word: macon
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Rookies. All big-league clubs have "farms" from which they draw new players. The Brooklyn Robins have a new farm at Hartford, Conn, in addition to their old one at Macon. But they acquired their most unusual 1931 rookie from the Oakland club, Pacific Coast League. He is Catcher Ernest Lombardi, 6 ft. 3 in. high and 220 Ib. heavy with a huge nose and hands big enough to enwrap a baseball as though it were a walnut. The New York Yankees found a monster larger than Lombardi-Jim Weaver, a 6 ft. 7 in. pitcher with a woodchuck...
...Wisconsin Supreme Court fortnight ago ruled that a headline may not be made the basis of a libel action unless it is libelous of itself, apart from the accompanying story (TIME, March 23). Last week substantially the same question was argued in Macon, Ga. in a libel case brought against the Macon News by a Professor William Joseph Bradley of Mercer University...
...Macon, Ga., Lou Howard, 35, colored, accused by her husband of having and concealing money, swallowed four $1 bills...
...Varre quarreled, and Partner Hall sought an injunction to restrain Partner La Varre from obtaining operating control. To protect himself, Hall had to go to the court of appeals for a decision declaring him an equal partner with La Varre. But one J. T. Webb Jr. of Macon, Ga. was appointed by Federal court as commissioner to manage the newspapers pending their sale. La Varre ejected Commissioner Webb from the Columbia Record office, went to jail for contempt. He emerged to fight a petition by Partner Hall for the sale of the papers. He lost...
...Wilkins (No. 2), Pullman porter, was found dead near the railroad track between Atlanta & Macon. Obviously he had been removed from his train, murdered, but evidence of a lynching mob was lacking...