Word: tenere
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...woman member of Congress, announced that, in the event of the Washington Baseball Club's winning the baseball championship of the world, she will introduce a resolution in Congress to make Walter Johnson's* birthday a legal holiday throughout the District of Columbia. In Manhattan, John K. Tener, one time Governor of Pennsylvania, one time President of the National League of Professional Baseball Clubs, one-time baseball pitcher, spoke as follows to a newspaper reporter: "Suppose the manager or owner of a big league baseball club suddenly developed radical ideas about how the game should be played...
Famed Elks absent: Nicholas Murray Butler, Alfred E. Smith, Royal S. Copeland, George Gordon Battle, John J. Pershing, John K. Tener...