Word: outfits
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Phil Finn pitched the Funsters to victory over an under-manned Winthrop outfit as Fred Pamp and Walter McKain led at the plate. Gitt and Bob Stuart pitched for the losers, and John Butler did some good hitting...
Soon after three of the five commanding officers of the Abraham Lincoln-George Washington outfit reached safety in the Leftist rear. Of these Mr. Fred Keller, a former choir boy, elevator boy, newspaper reporter and amateur boxer, who is a political commissar of the Abies & Georgies, had the most hair-raising tale to tell. Placed by his Rightist captors under guard in a house, chunky, muscular Commissar Keller overpowered and killed his guard, crept away into the night, had wandered about for four days behind Rightist lines, swum the Ebro River three times with a bullet in his hip before...
European observers incline to believe that the Communist Internationale and its section, the American Communist Party, were instrumental in creating the Abraham Lincoln-George Washington outfit, but according to its members it arose spontaneously in Leftist Spain on Christmas Day 1936. Around a campfire were some 90 U. S. Leftists who had simply gone to Spain as individuals and they formed the nucleus of the Battalion. Its money-collecting Friends organized themselves in Manhattan on April 20, 1937. According to their latest balance sheet, they have raised $115,701.42 of which administrative expenses have consumed $13,830.97 and there...
...been edged for the pennant by the Yankees and that one Joe Di Maggio had a slight lead over Appling for batting honors, it would have been hardly less accurate than this week's surprising appraisal of the New York Rangers as hockey's most newsworthy outfit [TIME, March...
While Hankow thus bubbled with confidence, Japanese installed at Nanking last week yet another Chinese Government, composed of the merest puppets. Chinese whose names mean almost as little to the Chinese people as Joe Zilch. This outfit, as the Japanese put it, will be "under the umbrella" of Nanking. The business community in Shanghai, both foreign and Chinese, exhibited no sympathy but much relief that there is now a Nanking Government which will get paralyzed currency exchanges going again. Last week the currency situation was such a desperate muddle that a few days after the native dollar was quoted...