Word: sales
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Louis Browns are the only major-league baseball team that has never won a pennant. Last year at home they drew only 92,000 spectators all season, not many more than the New York Yankees draw on one good day. The St. Louis Browns have been for sale ever since their owner, Philip De Catesby Ball, died three years ago, but not until last week was baseball rocked by the news that the sale of the Browns had finally been consummated. Buyer was a syndicate of St. Louis sportsmen headed by President Donald Lee Barnes of American Investment...
...baseball circles last week the sale of the Browns was generally regarded as a master stroke on the part of shrewd General Manager Branch Rickey of the Browns' National League rivals, the highly successful St. Louis Cardinals. The St. Louis park in which both Cardinals and Browns play belongs to the Ball estate. The Cardinals, who attract bigger crowds on tour than they do at home, have long wanted to play night games, permissible in their league. Because night games have been banned in the American League, the owners of the Browns refused to install lights. Last week...
...Clarke Collection of U.S. historical portraits (TIME, Feb. 10), tried to sell them intact for something near their appraised valuation of $1,000,000 without breaking the collection. As a tactful cough to remind the U.S. public that the Clarke Collection is still in their vaults and still for sale, Knoedler's last week borrowed from such assorted owners as J.P. Morgan, William Randolph Hearst, Yale University and the Museum of the City of New York another group of 29 historical portraits of first importance. Present were a good Gilbert Stuart Washington of the Vaughan type (red nose...
Accented Whiskey. On sale in Manhattan last week went an "Irish Whiskey with a Southern accent." Brand: William Jameson Irish American Whiskey...
...carried beyond State boundaries, even though it be for educational purposes. Harvard will have to pay therefore, between 60% to 70% of the &5,000,000 to Wisconsin. Exact figures on the probable amount to be received are not available since the settlement of the estate, which involves the sale of Journal shares, has yet to be made...