Word: plateful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Pittsburgh ladies liked Modarelli because he was dark and dynamic, as attractively reserved off the platform as he was wild-haired and passionate upon it. Pittsburgh Plate Glass Co. liked his conducting well enough in 1936 to sponsor the Symphony in a 40-station hookup over NBC. The Mellon family began to take an interest. Andrew Mellon's Son Paul became treasurer. Last May the Board began to lay elaborate plans for a 20-week season with conductors like Walter Damrosch, Otto Klemperer, Eugene Goossens, Carlos Chavez, Georges Enesco. Paul and Andrew Mellon pledged...
With the lineup riddled badly by exams and illness, victory for the Crimson seemed very distant. With catcher Al Colwell under the weather, Frank Owens, in a surprise move, was moved to behind the plate, Dave Shean filling in at third, and Bob Gannett in right field. Regular lfot corner guardian, Dick Grondahl arrived in time for the second game after an afternoon exam...
...ninth, A1 Jarlett, who had relieved the weakening Roy Bruninghaus on the mound for the Purple in the eighth, won his own game racing home on Ingalls' wide pitch which eluded A1 Colwell behind the plate...
McTernen led the home team at bat with three hits in four times up, while Colwell had two base knocks and a walk in four appearances at the plate. The Holy Cross captain, Joe Kelley, who was presented with a suitcase and a watch by admirers in the first inning topped the enemy attack with two singles...
...five years 1926 through 1930 Chesapeake & Ohio Railway owned through its subsidiary, Virginia Transportation Corp., about 1,000,000 shares of stock worth $50,000,000, carrying, together with stock of affiliates, working control of the Erie and Nickel Plate railroads. These holdings were not reported to the Interstate Commerce Commission. C. & O.'s Comptroller E. M. Thomas declared that this was "solely through a clerical error." When Senator Truman marveled at this explanation, Comptroller Thomas continued hotly...