Word: wrigley
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Japan now has 512,450 Christians, according to a survey by the weekly Christian News- 285,022 Protestants, 193,724 Roman Catholics, 33,704 Orthodox. ¶In Milwaukee, a jury of pastors found Lutheran Pastor Victor K. Wrigley, 35, guilty of heresy on five counts, including: "Denying the objective authority of the Holy Scripture" and "Denying the historical fact of the Virgin Birth." Minneapolis' Paul E. Bishop, President of the Northwest Synod of the United Lutheran Church, said he would suspend Heretic Wrigley "without a doubt." ¶Women employees of Miami department stores have organized "Christlike Christmas Parties...
...Newcomer Ernie Banks, the Chicago Cubs' young (24), Dallas-bred Negro shortstop, who in his second major-league season was running neck and neck with his elders. The record so far: a .296 average, 89 runs batted in, 37 home runs. At Chicago's Wrigley Field, gangling (6 ft.1 in.) Righthander Ernie Banks drilled out six homers last week alone...
Because of successful moves to the Middle West, there has been more talk than usual this year about starting big-league baseball teams on the West Coast. Most fluent talker is bag-eyed Owner Phil Wrigley of the Chicago Cubs, who also owns the Los Angeles Angels. Last week Wrigley said to an interviewer: "Major league baseball is coming to Los Angeles awfully fast." Asked the interviewer: "Within two years?" Answered Wrigley: "Much faster. It's coming awfully fast...
Pressed. In Los Angeles, Walter Clements was jailed on a burglary charge after he stole a pair of pants from a parked car, took them to the Wrigley Park cleaner's, where owner Tsunakichi Miyagshima saw his son's name stamped inside, called police...
...soften the shock of retirement on employees, Chicago's William Wrigley Jr. Co. will retire its oldsters on an installment plan. Beginning this year, said President James C. Cox, Wrigley workers who reach the retirement age of 65, but are willing and able to keep on working, will get a month's leave of absence without pay the first year, two months the second year, and so on until they are eventually retired altogether...