Word: ruppert
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...division. Last year the club's treasury showed a serious deficit. This year, the situation grew acute. First, the Braves' President Judge Emil Fuchs proposed to run dog races at Braves Field as a side attraction. The National League indignantly refused to allow it. Then Colonel Jacob Ruppert of the New York Yankees made Judge Fuchs a present of Babe Ruth. Dazzled momentarily by what he mistook for good fortune, Judge Fuchs soon learned that shrewd Colonel Ruppert had merely passed on his most perplexing problem. In June Ruth left the Braves in a rage because...
...that you have mentioned our old friendship, because if you had not, good taste would have prevented my doing so. . . . There certainly would be something wrong with me if I did not get a tremendous kick out of that." Also very much on hand was big, beefy Colonel Jacob Ruppert, ably pressagented brewer and baseball tycoon, who contributed $20,000 and some beer to the $1,500,000 Byrd Expedition and had his name put on the supply ship which the Government threw...
...Bureau of Chemistry & Soils, had agreed that chemical industry in the New World got its start in 1635. This meeting, therefore, was to be a 300th anniversary jubilee. Current researches would be reported as always-for example, a symposium on brewing methods and a conducted tour of Jacob Ruppert's brewery-but the dim past and the vague future were more important. The meeting was called "the greatest scientific conclave ever held." Ten thousand delegates were expected to attend, and 5,000 actually...
...sorry most for Colonel Ruppert...
Judge Emil Fuchs: . . . The generosity of Colonel Ruppert enables me to accept the attractive offer and opportunity of the Boston Braves as contained in your kind letter of Feb. 23. . . . Wholeheartedly I return home again to Boston and New England to complete my life's job among friends. . . . Mrs. Ruth and our daughter join me in the expression of our joy in again being with the kindly and fair people of Boston and its surroundings. I am mindful of the great battle and sacrifice you have made to give Boston a good ball club and a winner. I shall...