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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...usually leaves the best selling of its rivals trailing by laps. Most sensational Spanish-style waltz hit was a tune by Tunesmith Mabel Wayne called Ramona (1928). One of the biggest sellers in Tin Pan Alley's history, Ramona ended by piling up sales of two million copies...
Author Mumford's analysis of the present pathology of metropolitan culture ticks it all off, from the paranoia of the ruling class to the servility of the crowd: "A million cowards upon whose blank minds the leader writes: Bravery." But he does not gloat over the threatened exhaustion of the city or its extinction in war. There are in society powerful mutations of thought and art pointing to a healthy future, and though "it needs a terrific exertion of social force to overcome the inertia, to alter the direction of movement," Author Mumford throws his weight with them...
President Roosevelt cannot be completely forgotten today, however, for he will toss out the ball which will officially signify the opening, as the Washington Senators square off with the Philadelphia Athletics in Griffith Stadium. Here in Boston Thomas Yawkey's million dollar Red Sox will tangle with the World Champion New York Yankees. For two straight years both New York nines have wound up facing each other in the World Series. For the good of baseball everyone is hoping that the 1938 season may see a change. In the American League the return of the fabulous "Schoolboy" Rowe...
...former second baseman in the Connie Mack "million dollar infield" of two decades ago was outspoken in his criticism of the attitude taken by college toward ball clubs who send players through school and then sign them up. A second peeve was intercollegiate restriction of undergraduates participating in semi-pro games during the summer and "maybe picking up a little spare cash...
...ordeal of watching the Red Sox play their regular season has been gruesome enough of late without witnessing an exhibition game. Yesterday's class was no exception. Boston's million-dollar Hose merely went through the motions. The outfielders took so long getting to and from their positions that the game was on several occasions held up noticeably. Slugger Jimmy Fox struck out twice, the final time to end the game, and each time he laid his bat down so carefully that there was absolutely no danger of damaging the hickory...