Word: perini
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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HUGE REAL-ESTATE DEAL will bring Boston syndicate into West Palm Beach, Fla. to put up $350 million new city with 10,000 housing units, two shopping centers, one of biggest industrial areas in South. Group includes Developer Martin Cerel, Lou Perini of Milwaukee Braves baseball club and Boston's Perini Corp. (heavy construction). They bought a 4,000-acre tract for $4,352,503, will start work within six months...
...National League last week gave Lou Penni, owner of the Boston Braves the kind of green light that the American league had just refused to Bill Veeck and the St. Louis Browns (TIME, March 23): permission to move his franchise. Hereafter, Perini & Co. will be known as the Milwaukee Braves. Milwaukee's minor-league Brewers will move to Toledo...
...usual, the guilty refuse to accept the blame. Do the good citizens sign and say, "Ah, well, we didn't support the team and new it's gone?" Perish to thought! Rather, they mutter about betrayal and curse Lou Perini for a hypocrite who pretended to be civic minded but cared only for the folding green...
...truth, of course, there is no guilt. It borders on paranoia to liken Perini to Benedict Arnold because he didn't want to lose another half million dollars this year--and the next, most likely, and the year after that. It makes no more sense to slander the populace for failing to flock to watch a loser...
National League club owners meet today to consider shifting the Boston Braves to Milwaukee, less than 48 hours after the American League refused to let the St. Louis Browns move to Baltimore. Meanwhile, a Boston real estate broker said he had wired an offer of purchase to President Lou Perini...