Word: selections
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...brisk young sport who had made a fair reputation as a bicycle racer and just got a job with Henry Ford. When Ford perfected the automobile named 999, which he thought might become the first in history to go a mile a minute, he set about to select a driver for a five-mile race. Barney Oldfield had never driven a car, only ridden in one twice, but he asked for a chance to drive it. After learning to drive in the morning, he won the race in the afternoon, covered a mile in 60 seconds. For the next...
...benefit of indigent members of the Association of Professional Ball Players. This year League officials thought it would be wise to have another all-star game. Managers Bill Terry of the World-Champion Giants, and Joe Cronin of last year's pennant-winning Washington Senators were invited to select and manage the teams, which will meet at New York's Polo Grounds July 10. A nation-wide newspaper poll ending last week indicated the players baseball addicts wanted most to see in action. High scorers...
...exhibit but it is the most important. A competing show at Marshall Field & Co.'s huge Merchandise Mart housed 53 exhibitors and Manhattan's show which closed a fortnight ago was a huge success with 406. The Furniture Mart opened with 600. There the big retail stores select suites (pronounced "suits" by most of the trade) for display in the autumn, when the public does most of its furniture shopping. The professional buyers who last week smiled, frowned, scratched their heads, slapped feather mattresses and dusted armchairs with the seat of their pants may not actually close...
...older class secretaries after consultation with some members of the class might send is names of the man of men they consider worthy of the award. An impartial committee composed of members of the Alumni Bulletin and Association would cut this list down to ten. They would select the same number of non graduates, it would then be the job of the Corporation and the President to select the recipients from this list. If they felt that there weren't sufficient men with records worthy of awards, the number would be cut down. But above all it is important...
...Having tasted blood in 1932, the Democrats were out to mass a thumping vote and carry the state for the first time in half a century. Badly demoralized by local defeats, the Republicans sensed their peril. Pennsylvania's voters prepared to go to the polls this week and select their party candidates for the November elections. For Governor- The regular Democratic State Committee backed George Hansell Earle 3rd's gubernatorial candidacy. Candidate Earle, 43, is vice president of Pennsylvania Sugar Co. For 20 years he was one of the best polo players on Philadelphia's sporting Main...