Word: stadium
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Instead of a sweltering day in Topeka, it was a cool evening in Chicago. Instead of a rural throng of picnicking Kansans on the State House lawn, it was an urban crowd of 20,000 packed into Chicago's enclosed Stadium.* Instead of the flat prairie voice of Alf M. Landon, it was the boom of Frank Knox. But the difference was more than a difference of weather, crowd, voice...
...Berlin's huge Olympic Stadium, packed by 110,000 spectators, Reichsführer Adolf Hitler stopped chatting with his good friend Cinemactress Leni Riefenstahl, official Olympic photographer, long enough to discharge last week his sole function at the XIth Olympic Games. Said he: "I proclaim open the Olympic Games of Berlin, celebrating the XIth Olympiad of the modern era." Trumpets sounded across the arena. On a flagpole, the Olympic Flag-white with five interlocking circles representing the five continents-was slowly raised. Outside the stadium, guns boomed. Atop the staircase at the East gate appeared the last runner...
Last week the newly-allied political guerrilla chieftains trotted out their candidate for the last act of the Townsend show. Rising just before sundown in Cleveland's huge Municipal Stadium, freckle-faced, stubble-chinned William Lemke addressed himself not only to some 70,000 empty seats and 5,000 Townsendites, but to every malcontent in the land. For Townsendites, he plumped "100% for an old-age revolving pension." For Coughlinites he cursed the "money changers," called for $5,000,000,000 worth of greenbacks. And for any who might still cherish the memory of Huey Long, he promised...
Randalls Island, To make the Olympic tryouts the year's most brilliant track meet and to hold it in a brand new stadium was the commendable plan of Chairman William J. Bingham of the Olympic Track & Field Committee. Last March he asked New York City's Park Commissioner Moses when the new Triborough Bridge - and Randalls Island Stadium would be ready. Commissioner Moses promised they would be ready in time for the Olympic tryouts. Last week, Commissioner Moses kept his promise by opening the bridge, which was the only way to reach the stadium, one hour before...
...announce which the Committee did not even bother, when the loudspeakers broke down, to furnish an amateur badge-wearer with a second-hand megaphone-were in athletic merit probably equal, if not superior to those which a cosmopolitan crowd of 100.000 will witness in Berlin's Olympic Stadium next month. In twelve of the scheduled events, the U.S. has competitors who have made better times or distances than any European rivals. In the five remaining events, the entrants at the Randalls Island meet were, by & large, as competent as the entrants in the same events will be at Berlin...