Word: veterans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...this list of moundsmen the veteran Bill Lincoln ranks No. 1 on the basis of his performance a year ago. As yet Lincoln hasn't had a chance to show his stuff this season because of his hockey activities. He shares the glory of being an oldtimer with Drib Braggiotti, the pitcher who stepped into the limelight so sensationally in 1934 against Providence and Pennsylvania...
...salad days Mrs. Henderson had a court painter of her own, a crippled Civil War veteran named Lucien Whiting Powell. Seventy-six original Powells were in the sale last week. His widow got two of them for $60 apiece, another...
...Scotch Plains, N. J., John Crempa, Belgian War veteran, began the second major engagement of a one-man war against Public Service Gas & Electric Co. Eight years ago the company had part of his property condemned for a right-of-way for its power lines. He demanded $100,000. Eight hundred dollars were offered. In revenge he short-circuited the lines, costing the company a good part of $100,000. When he was jailed for six months. Public Service men offered to get him paroled if he would promise to let the company's wires alone. He refused...
...this point, you change the High Priest's name to Lobbyist Taylor who is demanding two billion dollars. And it was President Roosevelt who called attention to the Legionary's greater earning capacity than that of the average citizen. Mr. Roosevelt later said that the average veteran dies without any asset other than his Adjusted Service Certificate. Was he mistaken? Did he mean the American Veterans Association, perhaps? Or did he believe that the 85% mentioned are not members of the American Legion? I wonder...
Outstanding player on the Fesler team was Dick Fletcher, veteran guard, who by miraculously close guarding throughout the game held little Lou Freed, one of the League's high scorers last year, to a single basket. This muzzling of the Ithacans big gun was largely instrumental in the Harvard victory...