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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Started in 1926 as a novelty for Manhattan's new Madison Square Garden, the Rangers, under Manager Patrick, were developed into an effective machine of famed players including Frank Boucher, Bill & Bun Cook, Murray Murdoch, Ching Johnson, who won the Stanley Cup twice...
...years ago Lester Patrick did the same thing that Connie Mack has twice done in baseball: disbanded his great team to start building another from scratch. He had paved the way for doing so. Scouting -from the mill pond up-has long been the customary procedure in big-league hockey, but Lester Patrick four years ago brought an innovation to the sport when he started a training school for likely prospects. Because Eastern Canada has been so thoroughly scoured by scouts (75% of major-league players come from either Toronto or Ottawa), Manager Patrick opened his school in Winnipeg, where...
...lecture three weeks ago on the need to balance prices, President Roosevelt singled out plaster as one article for which the price is too high. Leaning back in his chair with a long wooden pointer, he discussed a large graph showing that plaster prices are now twice what they were in 1929 (TIME...
...cash, rest in notes). It so happens that North American Aviation is controlled by General Motors Corp. through ownership of nearly 30% of its stock. The various Hertz truck and bus lines are General Motors' valued customers and shrewd Financier Hertz knew G. M. would think twice before snubbing his bid for Eastern. But John Hertz reckoned without Eddie Rickenbacker...
...Government charged that many of the evasions were run of the mill failures to report full income from gate, concessions, dividends, stock manipulations and "false, fictitious and fraudulent" deductions for debts. Among the latter was one for $50,000 from the late Promoter George L. ("Tex") Rickard, allegedly subtracted twice. But in the centre ring of alleged Ringling evasions were their incredible inventories. And the more colossal the inventory, the more colossal the depreciations to be deducted...