Word: philadelphia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...seventh inning and then defeated the Detroit Tigers 4 to 3 in the 10th, as Lofty Grove copped his third straight win of the season. Out in St. Louis the Boston Bees were defeated by the Cardinals 3 to 2. Other scores--American: New York 5, St. Louis 1. Philadelphia 7, Chicago 3, Cleveland 10, Washington 9, National: Cincinnati 10, New York 2, Brooklyn 7, Pitisburgh 2, Chicago 5, Philadelphia...
Neat little trucks from Holland's, locally famed Negro caterer, pulled up at the cellar door of the American Philosophical Society's Georgian brick building on Philadelphia's Independence Square last week, disgorging trays of fried oysters, crab cutlets, apple salad and fancy cakes. To sleepy loungers in the Square this was a sure sign that the Philosophical Society, oldest and one of the richest of U. S. scientific bodies, was holding its spring meeting...
Small, deep-voiced Dr. Herbert Fox, comparative pathologist of the University of Pennsylvania, studied the incidence of arthritis in animals at the Philadelphia Zoo, found this joint disease in the front legs of hyenas and leopards, the hind legs of antelope, deer and wild pigs, the necks and hands of gorillas. He concluded that in mammals (including man) the parts put to most strenuous use are the most susceptible to arthritis...
...succeed the aged, conservative publisher of the enormously wealthy, faintly stodgy Washington Star as A. P.'s supervising chief, A. P. directors this week chose the middleaged, conservative publisher of the enormously wealthy, faintly stodgy Philadelphia Bulletin. To the 35,000,000 readers of A. P. dispatches, retiring, even-tempered Robert McLean's election will mean nothing. Like his predecessor, President McLean, steeped in A. P. tradition, will be inclined to go along with any changes proposed by A. P.'s General Manager and executive boss, crisp Kent Cooper. But few shifts in A. P. setup...
...Philadelphia, who fought in the World War, did some advertising work before beginning, in 1921, the long, hard studies of a Jesuit. Ordained in 1931, he was assigned to America's staff four years ago. Believing that much of the U. S. press is biased, or uninformed, on Catholic matters, Father Toomey has in recent months written four articles on "propaganda" in the press. Last month, before the Bias Contest ended, he helped set up a Catholic organization to deal with erring editors...