Word: cincinnatis
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Cincinnati Club...
...first week of the 1935 baseball season, which closes Sept. 29 after each team has played 154 games, the Cincinnati Reds, generally conceded to be the weakest team, were tied with the Brooklyn Dodgers for first place in the National League, the Boston Red Sox were leading the American...
While waiting to argue a case before the U. S. Supreme Court one day ten years ago, Lawyer Newton Diehl Baker was asked if he could suggest a good man for city manager of Cincinnati. The Wartime Secretary of War recommended Lieut. Colonel Clarence Osborne Sherrill, who was then serving as director of the capital's grounds & public buildings by appointment of President Harding. A staff officer of the 77th Division during the War. Col. Sherrill had been an Army engineer for nearly 24 years, could have retired in a year and a half. Cincinnati's offer...
...National League's weakest team last week appeared to be the Cincinnati Reds. Their owner, Powel Crosley, spent the winter pouring $200,000 into minor-league treasuries for new players, of whom the most promising, First-Baseman John Mize, cost $50,000. But the team will start the season with an infield of four rookies, a weak pitching staff. Philadelphia, Brooklyn and Boston are likely to finish in the second division. Among the serious contenders, most experts think the Pittsburgh Pirates, with capable but unreliable pitchers, the Chicago Cubs, with dubious pitching and an experimental infield, are too weak...
Sudden as it was, the death of Publisher Ochs was not unexpected. For more than a year his own New York Times had his obituary in type, in 16 black-bordered columns. It told the familiar story of the poor boy, born in Cincinnati to cultured German parents who took him to Knoxville, Tenn. where, at eleven, he began delivering papers; how he became printer's devil and learned the pressman's trade. It recalled his dogged determination and the editorial shrewdness by which he made the Chattanooga Times a thriving. potent newspaper. Then came...