Word: toledo
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Pennsylvania, with 31½% of the area's total trackage, pushes out to Kansas City and Omaha, gets a new Buffalo-Detroit-Chicago-St. Louis link with Wabash. With Norfolk & Western it taps the Pocahontas coal fields, gains a new port to the South. Detroit, Toledo & Ironton forms a useful North-South connection for its main stems...
Married. Betty Lipe, daughter of President Raymond P. Lipe of Defiance Spark Plug Co.; and Howard De Vilbiss, son of the late Thomas De Vilbiss, president of De Vilbiss Co. (atomizers); in Toledo...
Hoover Hesitates. "General" Brown was one of the first White House politicians to notify the President of this real change on Prohibition and to advise him to meet it with new tactics. A Wet from Wet Toledo, Mr. Brown suggested a platform declaration promising the people some sort of vote on the question. For weeks President Hoover was reluctant to drop what he considered his neutrality and mix in on Prohibition. The subject, because it was so largely emotional, made him impatient and cross. It was his wish to fight out the 1932 campaign on economic issues. He liked...
...hand among the 20 Democrats, four Republicans, one Socialist and one Farmer-Laborite, were New York's Walker, Boston's Curley, Richmond's Bright, Syracuse's Marvin, New Orleans' Walmsley, Miami's Gautier, Milwaukee's Hoan, Cleveland's Miller, Denver's Begole, Minneapolis' Anderson, Akron's Sparks and Toledo's Thatcher...
...best hitters in the League, he led it with an average of .401 in 1930, barely missed doing it again last year. Now only 33, he had been a professional ballplayer for six years and was planning to retire when McGraw discovered him in 1921. He played for Toledo in 1922, managed the team for part of the season of 1923. Last winter, when his reputed $23,000 salary was cut 40%, First Baseman Terry again threatened to retire. Manager McGraw called him "ungrateful." If Manager Terry had any specific plans beyond "giving the boys a break," he failed...