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WASHINGTON -- President Roosevelt threw out the first ball today to open the 1940 Major League baseball season, but Ol' Mose Grove threw the ones that counted and the Boston Red Sox blanked the Washington Senators, 1-0, before...
...Throughout the Provinces tease acts drew big crowds. Theatre marquees were bright with electric signs such as "STRIP PLEASE," "STRIP AHOY," "STRIP STRIP HOORAY." One of the most popular acts featured a knife-thrower who stood his fully dressed partner up against a panel and then threw knives and toma hawks which literally peeled her clothes...
...months ago Jimmy took a swing around China, looked at Japan's undeclared war, cabled six stories from Hong Kong. Again the Japanese were not amused. No sooner was Jimmy back in Tokyo than a squad of policemen descended on him (TIME, Feb. 5), ransacked his hotel suite, threw him into a cell in Sugamo prison for "spreading fabrications and false rumors" in violation of the Army criminal code...
...example, the waitresses had to be told repeatedly not to throw butter away, but to save it, thus proving conclusively that when no one was there to check up, the butter was wasted. The waitresses took the economy drive as a big joke, and freely admitted that they ordinarily threw away left-over bread and butter and had never before been instructed to do otherwise. On the day the Committee checked in Lowell House, two waitresses reported that only a few days before five whole pies had been removed from their tins and thrown away...
Illinois. As police searched for the "little black book"-slush fund record kept by the late F. Lynden Smith (TIME, March 18)-Illinois Labor's Non-Partisan League threw its claimed 200,000-vote strength to Term III, thus defying C. I. Oligarch John L. Lewis...