Word: scranton
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...games in a row this season (in which he allowed only three runs), and was leading the league in strikeouts with 65. What riled Brooklynites was the fact that Johnny Vander Meer had once been in the Dodgers training camp but they had let him go to Scranton. It was Larry MacPhail who had the foresight to buy him from Nashville in the summer of 1936 (for $17,500 cash and one player) after the wild young lefthander had been turned down by the Yankees, Red Sox and Giants...
Although they were accused of being highbrow and having a Hah-vahd accent when they faced Scranton, three members of the Debating Council had an otherwise successful Spring tour last week, in which they faced unusually large audiences between Jersey City, N. J. and Williamsburg...
...question of compulsory labor arbitration by the Federal government was verbally battled with College Misericordia in Dallas, Penn., on Tuesday; with Loyola in Baltimore on Thursday; with the University of Scranton in Scranton, Penn., on Friday, and in Saturday's radio debate with La Salle. The Harvard team was defeated on the Affirmative of arbitration by Micericordia and Scranton and won a judges' decision over Loyola while taking the Negative of the same question...
...sole flaw in the tour was the defeat suffered at the hands of the University of Scranton, where ex-Mayor Durkan of Scranton swung a 2-1 judges' decision against Harvard on the accusation of it being highbrow and having a hah-vahd accent...
...that remained was for the Republican executive committee to find 100 such suitable philosophers. So last week in St. Louis the committee, including New York's Old Guard Charles D. Hilles,* Illinois' Mrs. Bertha Baur, onetime National Chairman Henry P. Fletcher and the symbolic Mrs. Scranton, got down...