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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. David ("Winkle") Brooks, 26, son-in-law of Vice President James Andrew Moffett of Standard Oil of California, nephew of Lady Astor and Mrs. Charles Dana Gibson; when he fell from a window of his Park Avenue apartment; in Manhattan. His wife's mother, Mrs. Adelaide Taft McMichael Moffett, died two years ago in the same...
...baseball circles last week the sale of the Browns was generally regarded as a master stroke on the part of shrewd General Manager Branch Rickey of the Browns' National League rivals, the highly successful St. Louis Cardinals. The St. Louis park in which both Cardinals and Browns play belongs to the Ball estate. The Cardinals, who attract bigger crowds on tour than they do at home, have long wanted to play night games, permissible in their league. Because night games have been banned in the American League, the owners of the Browns refused to install lights. Last week...
...been grooming a young assistant named William O. DeWitt, whom he sent through law school. In the Barnes syndicate, William O. DeWitt will function as the Browns' general manager. Placing a protégé with the Browns and getting night-game equipment installed at Sportsman's Park were by no means all Branch Rickey got out of the Browns-to-Barnes deal. For promoting it, his commission was estimated...
...Bible Society supplies free Holy Writ to the hotels and there flourishes the largest Bible publishing house in the Western Hemisphere, the American Bible Society. The latter organization, 120 years old, last week passed another milestone by dedicating a new $500,000 home, a six-story stone building at Park Avenue and 57th Street, remodeled and air-conditioned. Since 1853 the American Bible Society's Bible House had been a landmark in fusty, downtown Astor Place. From its big old red brick building, it has sent out 135,000,000 Bibles and texts in 972 languages and dialects...
...financing of this enterprise was a three-cornered affair. The State Legislature authorized the City of New York to issue $7,000,000 worth of stock for acquisition of needed land, which will be developed by the Park Department after the Fair. From the State the Fair promoters are asking in all more than $4,000,000. Last spring when the bills for the first appropriation of $2,130,000 seemed to be lagging at Albany, Mr. McAneny resigned as president of the World's Fair Corporation, was succeeded by orchidaceous but politically shrewd Grover Whalen. Mr. Whalen went...