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Because the Redskins, highly popular on the road, have been so thoroughly ignored at home that their owner, Washington Laundryman George Preston Marshall, next season plans to move them home to the capital, professional football's No. 1 game of the year will be played in New York City...
After the War, in which he became a Major, Dr. March organized two dozen or so professional football teams into a loose organization which later crystallized into the National League. When a squabble with Laundryman George Marshall, owner of the Boston Redskins, put him out of the National League two years ago, Dr. March wrote a book called Pro Football, which stamps him as the leading U. S. authority on the subject. Last spring he promoted the idea of a second professional league, which got quick backing. Burly, pipe-smoking Dr. March is currently its president. Most remarkable...
...them of $20,000, Brooklyn's four NRA-hating Schechter brothers were discovered to be broke, their home and their big poultry jobbing business gone. Last week in Brooklyn the press turned up another martyr to the cause of Rugged Individualism in the person of Joe Tipaldo, laundryman who fought New York's minimum wage law for women up to the U. S. Supreme Court and won (TIME, June...
Favored by most laundries, the minimum wage law was chiefly opposed by hotels and restaurants. The New York State Hotel Association underwrote some $50,000 of Joe Tipaldo's court costs, but he spent more than $15,000 of his own money. When the case was won, Laundryman Tipaldo had $8,000 left, used it to expand his plant. Since many laundries kept the minimum wage, he prospered for a time by undercutting his competitors with what he saved on labor costs...
...group of financiers who back Major Robertson is headed by Washington's famed Laundryman George ("Long Live Linen") Marshall, whose other sporting venture is the Boston Redskins (football). To construct the track in record time they hired Engineer Mark Linenthal, who built Boston's Suffolk Downs horse-race track, physically perhaps the best in the U. S., in less than 60 clays. Last week Engineer Linenthal's job, started in June, was practically finished...