Word: saws
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...reproduced, has been forwarded to Collector FitzPatrick, Director of the Sunday Times, Sydney, Australia.?ED. Tinker's Version Sirs: The controversy on the famous Merkle play in your columns has been of interest to me. While reading Evers' letter last Sunday morning I glanced out my window and saw Joe Tinker chasing a golf ball up the fairway. Joe stopped on my call and I plied him for his version of the affair. Joe says he DID NOT hold McGinity's arms. His story is that he tried to call Emslie's attention to the play and that Phfiester...
...Rules Committee, by way of punishment, ordered this privilege for the United Press suspended. Wisconsin's Senator La Follette, eager to press the issue to the maximum discomfort of Republican Conservatives, pointed out that the Senate rules granted no floor privileges to any pressmen. When Senator La Follette later saw Fraser Edwards of the Universal Service weaving industriously about the floor, he made a point of order against his presence. Vice President Curtis ruled Mr. Edwards off the floor...
When Walter William Heffelfinger, son of a Minneapolis boot & shoe manufacturer, presented himself as a freshman at Yale in the fall of 1888, football coaches eyed him approvingly. His, they quickly saw, was the strapping physique to crash through any resistance to victory. Last week Walter William Heffelfinger prepared to present himself to the voters of Minneapolis as a candidate for Congress in the Fifth Minnesota District at a special election to succeed Representative Walter Hughes Newton, resigned. Time had changed the Heffelfinger physique but little. At Yale he had learned how to win. In Minneapolis he was confident...
...Three years later she helped raise the $20,000 necessary for the purchase of the historic Fay House, and when in 1890 still more space was needed, she was again a foremost worker in raising the needed funds. She and the others of the group of seven saw the work gradually but steadily extended and prosper until, in 1893, under Mrs. Agassiz's leadership negotiations were diplomatically conducted for Harvard to take over the management of the annex property...
...seem to mind when her Chicatie came in last. She still felt Chicatie was a nice horse. Among governors were Kentucky's Sampson, Tennessee's Horton, Indiana's Leslie, New Hampshire's Tobey, Pennsylvania's Fisher, Wisconsin's Kohler. Vice President Curtis who saw the Preakness with Mrs. Gann stayed away, but Charles Curtis Jr. went. From Chicago, came Joseph Medill Patterson and from Manhattan John J. Raskob. Matt Winn, director of Churchill Downs, was as excited as anybody although he has managed the Kentucky Derby for 25 years...