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...Benjamin F. Shibe. a manufacturer of baseball equipment, to build a ball park and buy a ball team. The Athletics, with Mack as manager, played their first game in 1901, won their first pennant in 1902, their second in 1905. But Manager Mack's first great team - with the famed "$100,-ooo infield" of Frank Baker. Jack Barry, Eddie Collins, Stuffy Mclnnis-was not assembled until 1910. In five years they breezed through four American League pennants, three world championships. In 1914 Philip Ball, late owner of the St. Louis Browns, Oilman Harry F. Sinclair and the Ward Baking...
Except to churchmen, the name of Henry Benjamin Whipple now means little. But for almost 40 years this energetic, squarejawed, hard-traveling Episcopal bishop of Minnesota was a U. S. figure to be taken seriously: a man of affairs who exerted his influence from the poverty-stricken, remote frontier post of Faribault, Minn.; a missionary who was denounced by Senators and generals for his defense of the Indians after the Sioux Outbreak in 1862; an ecclesiastical leader who conferred with Queen Victoria and Abraham Lincoln, preached in most of the cathedrals of England and turned down the bishopric...
Written by Associate Justice Benjamin Cardozo, who was recuperating from a heavy cold, read by Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes, the majority opinion found that the Secretary of the Treasury "did not act in excess of his lawful powers by issuing the calls without further authority from the Congress than was conferred by the statutes under which the bonds were issued." Diminished by one, when Hugo LaFayette Black replaced Willis Van Devanter, the Court's conservative minority dissented as sharply this week as it did in 1935. Said explosive Justice James Clark McReynolds for the minority: "If you will...
...gallery of Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art showed the spick & span art of Horseback Hall as it was in its far from heartbroken heyday in the 19th Century. Among 60 pictures, most of them hunting and racing scenes, were examples by such eminent specialists as Henry Alken, Benjamin Marshall and the stagecoach driver, John Frederick Herring, favorite of George IV and Queen Victoria. Fox-hunting gentry from nearby Virginia and Maryland also found pleasure in a handful of pictures by modern sporting artists...
...next April. A new subsidiary, U. S. Steel Corp, of Delaware, was created solely as a management corporation. After the turn of the year, this corporation will be governed by a board of executives representing all phases of management in the operating units and headed by 47-year-old Benjamin Franklin Fairless, president-elect of the parent company. Headquarters of the new management corporation, which will determine all operating policy, will be in Pittsburgh, in harmony with "the atmosphere of steel operations." Thus Big Steel continues its announced program of rededicating Pittsburgh as the steel capital...