Word: stanleys
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Friend Britain. Obviously, despite the efforts of British Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin to have the League of Nations appear to be taking all important actions in the Ethiopian crisis last week, those actions were being taken by His Majesty's Government...
...batter, Bill Lee of the Chicago Cubs, swung sharply. The pitcher, Dizzy Dean of the St. Louis Cardinals, slapped at the hard-hit ball with his bare hand but could not stop it. While it rolled to the outfield, Stanley Hack, who had started from second base with the crack of the bat, crossed the plate with the winning...
...through their winning streak. At the start of the season, Manager Grimm was the Cubs' regular first baseman. Nineteen-year-old Phil Cayarretta, one year out of a North Side Chicago high school, played the position so well that Manager Grimm let him keep it. He, Third-Baseman Stanley Hack, Outfielders Augie Galan and Frankie Demaree are playing their first season as regulars...
...Gordon Stanley ("Mickey") Cochrane was born in 1903 in Bridgewater, Mass. Mickey and his brother Archie (who now plays on a Ford Motor Co semiprofessional team) learned baseball almost as soon as they learned to walk but, partly because Harvard's Eddie Mahan was a hero to all New England urchins in 1915, football was Mickey Cochrane s first specialty. At Boston University his exploits of a dozen years ago are still legend. His method of practicing was to divide the squad into two sides-eleven men on one, himself on the other-and call for a kickoff...
...farm families as apprentices, half of each Fairbridgian's wages being set aside so that at 21 he will have £200. Frowned on as an expensive form of emigration by the British Treasury, the School is a favorite charity of the Prince of Wales; Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin; Malcolm MacDonald, Secretary of State for Colonies; the Marquess of Linlithgow, Viceroy of India; Lady Tweedsmuir, the wife of the new Governor-General of Canada; Edward Stephen Harkness (Harvard House plan, Yale College plan); many another fashionable sponsor...