Word: players
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Senator La Toilette's civil liberties committee was insured. At the appointed time, Organizer Richard Truman Frankensteen, head of the U.A.W. Ford drive, accompanied by his lieutenant, Walter Reuther and Organizers Robert Kanter and J. J. Kennedy, appeared. Leader Frankensteen, a husky 30 and a onetime football player (University of Dayton), led his friends up a long flight of stairs to the overpass to supervise the handbills' issuance. He was smiling for photographers as a group of Ford men approached. Someone shouted, "You're on Ford property. Get the hell off here...
...doubt about Budge's ability to beat him was perfectly honest before the match began. And doubt still assailed the U. S. squad's brain trust after they had picked Bryan ("Bitsy") Grant, the lionhearted, 5 ft. 4 in. Atlanta tumblebug, as No. 2 U. S. singles player. But all doubts evaporated when, as so often happens in sport, what had promised to be a titanic struggle turned out to be nothing of the sort...
...French hard-court singles championship at Paris. In the final he beat Bunny Austin, England's Davis Cup No. i, 6-1, 6-4, 6-3. Heretofore 22-year-old Henkel has been regarded as nothing much more than a handicap for Germany's No. 1 singles player, Baron Gottfried von Cramm. His performance last week suggested that, just as Australia turned out much weaker than expected, Germany may turn out much stronger...
...directing it. Miriam Hopkins offered to pay anything in reason not to star in it, at length agreed to give in and work if Goldwyn got Gregory LaCava to direct. Goldwyn got LaCava, but after reading the script LaCava left the lot. Andrea Leeds, a bit player, announced that she would rather starve than play the minor role for which she had been cast. Soon thereafter a large part of the Goldwyn organization filed into the boss's office, begged through a spokesman that he drop the picture. Goldwyn ignored them, had a new script written by Joseph Anthony...
...that stopped on the fairway counted. Contestants' only advantage was a tee elevated 150 ft. above the fairway. There was no wind, the ground was soft. Always the favorite in driving contests, bulky Jimmy Thomson of Shawnee, Pa., who can throw himself into his shot like a hockey player, was overanxious last week to substantiate his reputation. On his first try he hit his ball thickly, dubbed it a mere 276 yd. His second, cleanly but cautiously hit, wem only 18 yd. farther. His third was a terrific hook, 320 yd. into the rough...