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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Cincinnati is the only other city where major-league baseball is played at night...
Elected Foreign Minister in 1918, Eduard Benes held the job for 17 years largely through sheer ability, for during that time his own political supporters, the Czech National Socialists, were usually the least influential of the major parties. During this time, France and Britain called the European tune from Geneva, League Delegate Benes' logical, forceful arguments were helping them carry many a day, and those nations flatteringly bestowed on him the title of "Europe's Smartest Little Statesman...
Last week, 40,000 Brooklyn baseball fans crammed Ebbets Field and 20,000 were turned away. What they had come to see was Boss MacPhail's first big innovation-the first major-league baseball game played under floodlights in New York City.* With his customary extravagance, Larry MacPhail had made the baseball game an incidental of the evening's entertainment. He had invited famed Olympic Sprinter Jesse Owens to do his stuff before the game, had hired two fife & drum corps and a couple of brass bands. At 9:45 when the grandstand customers who had paid...
...Vander Meer had won (6-to-0) his second no-hit, no-run game. Far, far rarer than two holes-in-one at golf, two loos at trapshooting, two 300s at bowling, it is the pinnacle of U. S. sporting performance. Only nine pitchers in the long history of major-league baseball had ever succeeded in getting two no-hit, no-run games in a lifetime. No one had ever done it twice in one season. Young Vander Meer, in his first full year in the major leagues, had done it twice within five days...
...cabin of her Vultee bomber flower-filled by proud Turks, Turkey's "Flying Amazon," 24-year-old Pilot-Major Sabiha Gökeen (adopted daughter of President Kamâl Atatürk hopped off on a good-will flight to Athens, Belgrade, Bucharest...