Word: philadelphia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...vastly improved catching of Bob Fulton was one of the high spots of the trip. Performing well against Princeton, Fulton turned in a practically perfect job in Philadelphia...
...Philadelphia Philadelphia...
...next year, after Eugene Ormandy had left the Minneapolis Symphony to go to Philadelphia, Maestro Mitropoulos got Ormandy's job. Minneapolitans soon found that their new Greek had a mind of his own. In a small dormitory room on the University of Minnesota campus with a studio couch, an upright piano and two trunks, he lived the life of a monk. When he did go out for an evening, it was not with Minneapolis' dowagers but with some fiddler or bassoonist from his own orchestra. A devout Greek Orthodox Catholic, he wore a crucifix inside his shirt...
...Pennsylvania, a Philadelphia Record reporter, David Greendrug Wittels, recently toured the schools of eight coal counties, returned with a grim tale. With mines shut down and coal operators owing millions in local taxes (Philadelphia & Reading Coal & Iron Corp. alone owes $3,000,000), about one-fourth of the school districts could not pay their teachers. Some 6,000 teachers all told had received no pay for one to ten months. Hundreds were on relief. To support their families, others worked after school hours as undertakers, night watchmen, store clerks, life-insurance salesmen, coal bootleggers...
Brooklyn 2, Philadelphia 2. Chicago 4, St. Louis...