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...Gleason School of Music," "Good's Riding School, Inc.," "Gordon College of Theology and Misions," "Graves Dress-making School," "Grove Hall Auto Schools Co." and "Harvard University...
...Connie Mack had developed his second great team with Grove, Walberg and Earnshaw pitching, Mickey Cochrane catching. The team won three pennants in a row, was so invincible that Philadelphia fans became bored with it and stayed away from Shibe Park. The Athletics lost money, and, as in 1914, Connie Mack started to sell out. Owner Thomas Yawkey of the Boston Red Sox paid him almost half a million dollars to get Jimmy Foxx, Roger Cramer, Bob Grove, Rube Walberg, Max Bishop. The Chicago White Sox bought Jimmy Dykes, Al Simmons, George Haas, George Earnshaw. Detroit took Mickey Cochrane...
...TIME, July 19, mention was made that the late Amelia Earhart was the first person to fly an autogiro across the continent (U.S.). Please permit me to correct you on this, as I was the first one to do so. My flight started at Willow Grove, a suburb of Philadelphia, on May 14, 1931 and ended at San Diego (North Island Naval Air Station) on May 28, 1931, after a leisurely flight stopping at several cities for demonstrations, etc. My autogiro (a Pitcairn 330 h. p. model) was the first ever seen west of the Mississippi River...
Busiest of the President's 50,000,000 listeners last week was his onetime aide, Hugh Johnson, who last month started a series of 15-minute broadcasts four times a week for Grove's Bromo Quinine, in addition to his daily Scripps-Howard column in which he has become one of the New Deal's sharpest critics. During the "fireside chat" Hugh Johnson took notes on what the President said. Three minutes after the chat was over, on the air at his usual time, he undertook to rebut some of his former chief's points with...
...gorges of the Skagit River, high in the mountains above Seattle, is a grove of palms and banana plants. They were grown there by James Delmage Ross, superintendent of Seattle's power system, after someone told him it couldn't be done. Almost as surprising as a banana plant in the State of Washington is a Republican in the high councils of the New Deal, but such is Mr. Ross. A utility expert who expressed hearty "disapproval of Franklin Roosevelt's early ideas on power distribution, he nonetheless became Franklin Roosevelt's firm friend, was appointed...