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Truman Family Travels – Trip to Annapolis
… secretary sullivan, governor lane, admiral denfeld and admiral holloway leave phlox landing for the naval academy baseball field. the film shows truman and other riding in a car and then sitting on bleachers. 09:06 may 29 – the president officially gets the army-navy baseball game underway. final score: navy 9, army 0. truman throws the first pitch. this segment shows the game footage, … on highlights of the navy players. 12:02 may 29 – all hands stand as the president and members of his party leave the baseball field. 13:05 may 29 – the president waves goodbye to his host as he prepares to return to the williamsburg. 13:15 …
Truman’s Trip to Annapolis
… witnesses the cornell navy crew races, arrives at the u. s. naval academy, and throws out the first pitch at the army navy baseball game. the president then goes to arlington, virginia for memorial day services, again on the williamsburg. this is a … leave williamsburg for the naval academy. appropriate honors given upon arrival. 8:54 president opens the army-navy baseball game by throwing out first ball. scenes of the game. 11:54 president leaves field, and boards the williamsburg . …
President Harry S. Truman at Opening Day
… harris). all others are unidentified. from the scrapbooks of matthew connelly, volume 7. keywords armed forces officers baseball first ladies judges naval officers presidents vice-presidents white house staff hst keywords truman - bess - sports; truman - sports - baseball - 1950-1951 people pictured truman, bess wallace, 1885-1982 truman, harry s., 1884-1972 barkley, alben william, …
President Harry S. Truman at Opening Day
… (behind harris). all others are unidentified. related collection rigdon, william m. papers keywords armed forces officers baseball first ladies judges naval officers presidential advisors presidents vice-presidents hst keywords truman - bess - sports; truman - sports - baseball - 1950-1951 people pictured truman, bess wallace, 1885-1982 truman, harry s., 1884-1972 barkley, alben william, …
Truman Throws First Ball 1951 Opener
… and appointment secretary matthew connelly (behind harris). all others are unidentified. keywords armed forces officers baseball first ladies judges naval officers presidents vice-presidents white house staff hst keywords truman - bess - sports; truman - sports - baseball - 1950-1951 people pictured griffith, clark (clark calvin), 1869-1955 stengel, casey truman, harry s., 1884-1972 …
National Stadium in Tokyo
… no restrictions undetermined graphic image no scopenote aerial view of the national stadium, tokyo metropolitan gymnasium, baseball stadium, and swimming pools for the 18th olympic games. related collection gardiner, arthur z. papers keywords …
VT2000-71
… restrictions undetermined description 7/2/94. footage of clifton truman daniel throwing out the first ball at a royals baseball game. vhs tape. date(s) july 2, 1994 sd-quality copies of already digitized motion pictures are available for $20, …
Daniel Family Vacations and Celebrations, c. 1968
… includes christmas celebrations, winter scenes, vacation in key west, florida, a visit to the ernest hemingway house, a baseball game, a birthday celebration, and a visit to colonial williamsburg, virginia. date(s) ca. 1968 available format(s) … and harrison gates daniel dressed in oversize costumes and hats with feathers. harrison gates daniel holds an inflated baseball bat marked “dodgers.” 06:19 harry s. truman enters plane for departure. margaret truman daniel departs plane. … at table in unidentified sports stadium. 07:17 large sign (unreadable) at outdoor stadium. 07:21 major league baseball game in progress. 07:43 unidentified lady, in box at stadium. 07:45 same as 7:21 07:49 harrison gates …
Hannegan at Desk
… owner and president of the st. louis cardinals, at his desk. related collection hannegan, robert e. papers keywords baseball people pictured hannegan, robert e. (robert emmet), 1903-1949 note: if you use this image, rights assessment and …
James McGillicuddy Morris
… undetermined graphic image no scopenote portrait of james mcgillicuddy morris, a catcher for the linwood state bank baseball team who was a part of the senior 3&2 league. he is 20 years old in this photo. related collection brannon, john g. …
Hannegan Examines Cardinals Roster
… check over rosters for the cardinals' minor league clubs. related collection hannegan, robert e. papers keywords baseball people pictured hannegan, robert e. (robert emmet), 1903-1949 breadon, sam, 1876-1949 note: if you use this image, …
Mason, Lowell B. Papers
… commerce subcommittee 1936 admitted to the washington, d.c. bar ca. 1938 hired as lawyer for washington senators baseball team 1945-1956 member, federal trade commission 1954 (june 14) received honorary doctor of laws degree, … titled “hits a home run” with the individual’s name preceding the title. mason was a lawyer for the washington senators baseball team and as a result was given some of the best seats at griffith stadium. mason would invite guests to the games including harry s. truman. many of the photos in the collection are of mason and his guests at the baseball games. the books have been transferred to the book collection and the photographs to the audiovisual collection. …
President Truman's Trip to Annapolis, Maryland
… covers president truman's visit to the cornell-navy crew races on the potomac, the regatta races, and the army-navy baseball game at the naval academy. date(s) may 28, 1948 - may 30, 1948 sd-quality copies of already digitized motion …
Jesse M. Donaldson
… leaves his post on december 1 to devote full time as one of the members of a syndicate purchasing the st. louis cardinals baseball team. keywords cabinet officers portraits hst keywords hannegan, robert - ref. to people pictured donaldson, jesse …
Hannegan and Sons
… at the washington redskins - pittsburg steelers football game. related collection hannegan, robert e. papers keywords baseball cabinet officers football people pictured hannegan, robert e. (robert emmet), 1903-1949 hannegan, robert emmet …
Margaret Truman Daniel and Clifton Daniel Family Home Movie
… shown including thomas at his tent cabin, a home-made castle, a totem pole, boys swimming near docks, a tennis match, a baseball game, climbing a rope bridge, and swinging on a swing set. date(s) ca. 1972 available format(s) motion picture …
Commander Jones and Secretary Forrestal on Flight Deck
… graphic image no u.s. navy scopenote commander robert e. c. jones (left) and secretary of the navy james forrestal (in baseball cap) on the primary flight deck of the u.s.s. franklin d. roosevelt during fleet maneuvers off the virginia capes. …
President Truman receiving baseball tickets from 3 Shriners
… president truman receiving baseball tickets from 3 shriners printer-friendly version order this image 73-2606a (untitled) accession number 73-2606a 8x10 …
Sailors line up on the deck of the Williamsburg and salute as Truman returns to the ship
… and salute president truman (not shown) as he returns from watching crew races and prepares to leave for the army-navy baseball game. from: naval photo center, sent to the truman library by the national archives. original 4x5 negative. keywords …
Cartoon on 1948 election by Unknown Artist
… restricted graphic image no scopenote this photograph of a political cartoon shows president harry s. truman as a baseball player, throwing a ball labeled "the recall of congress," at an elephant, meant to symbolize the republican party. …
Senator Harry S. Truman Attends World Series Game
… collector of internal revenue for st. louis and mrs. finnegan (left). others in the background are unidentified. keywords baseball legislators presidential campaign, 1944 vice-presidential candidates people pictured finnegan, james p., 1901-1967 …
President Truman viewing a fleet operation
… graphic image no u.s. navy scopenote president harry s. truman wearing one of the navy's leather flight jackets and a baseball cap given to him by admiral marc a. mitscher. truman is viewing a fleet operation from the bridge of the u. s. s. …
Charles S. Murphy and Stanley Woodward Aboard the Destroyer Epperson
… graphic image no u.s. navy scopenote view which includes stanley woodward on the left and charles s. murphy in baseball cap to his right. mr. woodward was president harry s. truman's chief of protocol at the state department, 1946-1950 …
President Harry S. Truman Tries a Bit of Fishing at Sun Valley, Idaho
… by the manager of the main lodge and joseph burgy, director of sports and recreation at sun valley (wearing white baseball cap). president truman enjoyed a brief overnight stay during his western presidential tour. from: naval photo …
Former President Harry S. Truman and Casey Stengel
… from: charles s. stevenson, vice president, hallmark cards incorporated, kansas city, missouri keywords autographs baseball players businessmen dinners and dining ex-presidents hst keywords autographs - stengel, casey; autographs - …
Joe DiMaggio and "Doc" Marcus Visit the Fort Lewis, Washington Commissary
… black & white date(s) ca. 1959 cropped no restrictions undetermined graphic image no scopenote former new york yankee baseball player joe dimaggio (third from right) and jazz musician "doc" marcus (second from right) chat with unidentified …
Merle Miller Interview with Harry S. Truman, Tape 8, Side A
… for senate; the end of the war in europe; and a roger maris anecdote. related collection miller, merle papers keywords baseball players funeral rites and ceremonies potsdam conference, 1945 united states-soviet relations world war, 1939-1945 …
Former President Truman, Thomas Hart Benton, Stan Musial and Others Outside a House
… as 77-3058. original photo is in oversize file. related collection ross, charles g. papers keywords artists autographs baseball players ex-presidents governors hst keywords autographs - blair, gov. james t.; truman - dignitaries - governors - …
White House staff on vacation
… harry vaughan (head turned away from camera); charles murphy (sitting on wall, back to camera); david lloyd (wearing baseball cap); eddie jacobson (wearing shirt and pants, in chair); david bell (walking, back to camera); and john steelman. …
Joe DiMaggio and "Doc" Marcus are Guests in the Fort Lewis Officers' Mess
… black & white date(s) ca. 1959 cropped no restrictions undetermined graphic image no scopenote former new york yankee baseball player joe dimaggio and jazz musician "doc" marcus are guests of major general louis w. truman at a dinner in the …
Missouri, a Living Portrait
… missouri lakes 13:30 transportation in missouri: railroads, airplanes, highways, motels. 14:28 cities – hotels 14:48 baseball in missouri – kansas city a’s and st. louis cardinals 15:22 recreation in missouri 17:23 american royal in …
Daniel Family Trip to Key West, 1966
… on vacation in florida 05:00 unknown summer camp – views of lake and canoes 05:45 unknown summer camp – view of baseball diamond 06:00 clifton truman daniel water-skiing 06:35 scenes of daniel family in swimming pool. 07:41 end …
Thank You, Mr. President
… type motion picture shot list reel 1 0:00 truman in snow at 219 delaware and in independence walking. truman throws out baseball. 0:20 parade – truman walking with battery d (louis johnson beside him). 0:40 truman with turkey (gift). 1:00 truman …
General Records of the Economic Stabilization Agency: Records of the Salary Stabilization Board (Record Group 296)
… activities; and a transcript of a meeting of the board's professional sports panel, in which the participants included baseball legend ty cobb and representatives of the major professional sports leagues. the materials in this collection are …
KCMO Newsreel
… truman in his office talks about f. d. roosevelt and truman’s taking office. 36:15 truman at kansas city athletics baseball game – connie mack – american league opener with detroit tigers – april 12, 1955; docking, george; blair, james. …
Thank You Mr. President
… vacation including bess, margaret, barkley, etc. 10:22 independence, truman walking in snow (brief). 10:46 truman at baseball game – throws out ball. 10:55 35th division parade, june 5, 1948. 11:05 gets ears of corn. 11:13 gets turkey. …
Daniel Family Home Movies, Summer 1965 - Summer 1966
… play with their presents. 03:50 sarasota, florida – the daniel boys jump in pool 04:10 sarasota, florida – view of a baseball game, probably a major league team on spring training. 04:15 clifton truman daniel stands by sign “colony beach …
Screen Gems Collection (outtakes from the television series "Decision: The Conflicts of Harry S. Truman")
… mr. truman discusses love of music, and sunday school and public school with bess. he was usually the umpire in childhood baseball games because he didn't want to get his glasses broken. in regard to bess truman, he says "she and i went through …
Remarks in Annapolis at a Luncheon in the Midshipmen's Mess Hall
… and i couldn't pass the physical examination. i had a flat eyeball and couldn't see. we used to play neighborhood pigtail baseball, and they always made me the umpire on that account. however, since i couldn't follow this career in the navy, i had … by your splendid review. i have also enjoyed a chance to talk with some of you at lunch today. i will enjoy seeing the baseball game--in spite of the fact that i will have to be neutral--and the track meet this afternoon. i know that whichever …
Truman Family Travels – Key West 1950
… uniforms for a photo outside of his key west residence. 03:03 the film returns to the beach. scenes include playing baseball/catch and swimming. 06:28 scenes from a lawn party outside the trumans’ residence begin. people are served from a …
Decision: The Conflicts of Harry S. Truman - Ring of Steel, Episode No. 13
… attack. speaks of the stubbornness of the missouri mule. compares with russia. 15:52 american scenes; economy prospers. baseball; horse races; beach scenes. 17:12 north atlantic treaty organization - america divided. senator arthur vandenburg …
Harry S. Truman Papers Staff Member and Office Files James V. Fitzgerald Files
… special assistant to dr. john steelman c. 1959 public relations staff of george washington university librarian, baseball hall of fame 1976 (august 23) died, washington, d. c. [ top of the page | administrative information | …
Screen Gems Collection (outtakes from the television series “Decision: The Conflicts of Harry S. Truman”)
… gone, they moved up to what is the junior high school now. 5:35 miller: what kind of games did you play? chiles: baseball, ponies (roping and riding), in winter we skated and play shinny on ice (sort of a forerunner of ice hockey). …
Decision : The Conflicts of Harry Truman - The Legend of Douglas MacArthur, Part II, Episode No. 12
… homer ferguson and senator richard nixon speak against dismissal. 15:17 mail; newspaper headlines; truman is booed at a baseball game. 15:31 japanese scenes. macarthur arrives home. 16:15 motorcade. 16:18 macarthur's speech before congress …
Lowell B. Mason Oral History Interview
… darrow, i became an attorney for a fellow who put up the money, the silent partner of clark griffith, on the washington baseball team. back in those days, the washington senators used to win league pennants, and they were very popular, and on … if they were going to sit in, perhaps, a lobbyists box. out of this habit grew the "lowell b. mason chowder, marching, and baseball club" -- [alben] barkley, [arthur] vandenberg, [robert a.] taft, [3] [robert] lafollette, jerry [gerald] nye, bert … great heights -- well, we won't say anything about that -- but who never did get on the list to join our little informal baseball club. vandenberg always said the only reason i invited him was because he had a private dining room so we could all …
Chronological Look at the Life of Harry S. Truman and His Times
… debuts as a singer with the detroit symphony. jackie robinson becomes the first black man to sign with a major league baseball team. orville wright dies in ohio. the largest telescope in the world is dedicated at mount palomar observatory in …
Edward D. McKim Oral History Interviews
… 113 , 119 truman committee, 90-91 truman, harry s.; airplane, first ride in, 42-43 april 12, 1945, events of, 120-124 baseball game, world series (1944), 108 , 109 battery d, assumes command of, 15-16 battery d.reunion, pays for damages, 33-34 …
Housholder, Vic H. Papers
… organizations beyond the realm of his civil engineering work. he managed state track meets, coached the phoenix senators baseball team, and sat as a commissioner for the amateur athletic union, among other involvements with sports. furthermore, …
Flavius B. Freeman Oral History Interview
… '74. the college was founded in 1873. but, oh, on the bennett side, i had an uncle herschel bennett who was a major league baseball player with the st. louis browns. he later ran for office here in greene county, and was elected. i guess he was … truman, who later went to west point and has retired as a three-star general; he and i grew up across the street playing baseball together. johnson: were the freemans democrats all the way back? freeman: oh, yes. johnson: the bennetts, were they …
Daniel Family Vacations, Celebrations, and Events, c. 1973-1974
… . moving image type motion picture shot list 00:00 william wallace daniel and thomas washington daniel playing baseball. 00:19 margaret truman daniel outdoors gardening. 00:23 daniel boys playing outdoors. 00:36 margaret truman …
William K. Divers Oral History Interview, December 18, 1969
… up? divers: well, i was you mean personally. i would say that i enjoyed a lot of physical pastimes. i enjoyed playing baseball, i played tennis. we lived just a few doors from a former mayor of cincinnati, john mosby, and he had a tennis court … he probably would have been number one in any era in which he grew up. i also enjoyed watching the cincinnati reds, the baseball team, and used to go out [14] frequently. i remember it was just fifty years ago that i got excused from school or … the game and brought about a great scandal which was only cleared up when judge kenesaw mountain landis was appointed baseball commissioner a year or so later. hess: you saw some of the games that were thrown? divers: i saw a couple of the …
Mr. and Mrs. George T. Holt Oral History Interview
… [35] holt; yes. well., after he served his term as president i did talk to him for just a minute up at the ball park at a baseball, game one night. he and bess were there and i just spoke to him, saying, "how are you?" johnson: so they were at a … yes, a town ball game. that was after he had been president, and when he had moved back to independence. they came to a baseball game one night. as i remember, mary jane was with him and bess. johnson: did you see bess truman or margaret out … 20 , 22-23 , 24 roosevelt, franklin d., death of, 42 truman, fred, 22-23 truman, gilbert, 26-28 truman,, harry s.: and baseball game in grandview, attends, 35 and johnson, lyndon b., on grandview farm, 20 , 22-23 , 24 and rayburn, sam, on …
Mary Ethel Noland Oral History Interview, September 9, 1965
… i want to ask you about which precede that in chronology. i noticed mr. truman mentioned in his memoirs , "a pigtail baseball game." does that mean anything to you? what is a pigtail baseball game? noland: i don't know. fuchs: also, he mentions a family named the mccarrolls? who were they? noland: well, … so that you had room for the children to play. and these boys used to play a great deal. harry never did enter into the baseball because he wore glasses and he couldn't see the ball without the glasses, and of course, he couldn't run the risk of …
The President's News Conference
… talk you had with these businessmen 2 or 3 days ago--i think it was last week--in which one of them said that you had a baseball bat in the corner waiting for them? the president. the speech that i made to those businessmen was off the record, …
Address in Hartford, Connecticut
… say about this? they say: "it's time for a change." now, my friends, maybe that's an appealing slogan. i know many a baseball fan who was rooting for the brooklyn dodgers in the world series just because the yankees had won too many times. it …
Address in Chicago on Army Day
… nations cannot, on the surrender of a vicious and dangerous enemy, turn their backs and go home. wars are different from baseball games where, at the end of the game, the teams get dressed and leave the park. in wars, the victors must make sure …
The President's News Conference
… president. yes, i do. the door is always open on politics. it's the--the great american game. i think it beats football, baseball, and basketball and everything else. i like politics. and i have been in it--come january 2, 1953, i will have been …
Sue Gentry Oral History Interview
… of daughters and sons, among whom were morton chiles and henry p. chiles. in mr. truman's memoirs , he speaks of playing baseball in the lot across the street (back of where the trumans lived) with the chiles boys. miss janie chiles, who was one … house as one of his boyhood homes. this is where there was a vacant lot behind, and that's where the boys played a lot of baseball. mr. henry chiles always said, "well, harry wore thick glasses and he didn't play with us very much. he always had his music roll, but sometimes he would surprise the boys and get into a baseball game." at the buckley home here at 820 west waldo, the flournoy family lived for a good many years. the carriage …
Records of the National Archives and Records Administration: Records of the Harry S. Truman Library: Museum Exhibit Case Files (Record Group 64)
… exhibit (on loan from u.s. capitol) 1985: american coinage exhibit 1985: truman the mason exhibit (lobby exhibit) 1985: baseball exhibit (lobby case) 1985-1988: united nations: 1945-1985 exhibit 1986: exhibit proposals 1986: recent acquisitions …
McKinley Wooden Oral History Interview, February 12, 1986
… to there in 1911. i was working for a farmer out there. i came into walker one saturday. it rained. they were playing baseball, or pitching ball out in front on the livery stable. i played ball a good deal, amateur. i said to one old boy; i … team for a little town; we beat everything from ft. scott up to clinton, missouri. johnson: how long did you play baseball? wooden: i quit baseball in about '28 i think. johnson: oh, this is after the war? wooden: my best years i played before the war. this was …
Hannegan, Robert E. Papers
… national committee 1945-47 postmaster general of the united states 1947-49 president, cardinal national league baseball organization 1949, oct. 6 died, st. louis, missouri [ top | administrative information | biographical sketch | …
T. Willard Hunter Oral History Interview
… batch of brownies. they used to talk about those brownies a lot. i remember my wife and i went to the opening of the baseball season in washington. that was probably 1948. at that time the washington senators were the [15] team in the capital …
Rear Platform and Other Informal Remarks in Pennsylvania
… i appreciate this reception more than i can tell you. somebody told me that williamsport was the place where the little baseball league started. now i am something of a fan, although not a very good one. i am not nearly so good a fan as the … the history of every player, his batting average, how many games he has won and lost. but i can't do that, although i like baseball games. i think one of the finest things in the world is to get young people interested in that great american sport. …
Matthews, Francis P. Papers
… 1947 puerto ricans in the united states, civil rights of - staff memo, june 10, 1947 racial discrimination in organized baseball - staff memo, may 13, 1947 "russia in united nations hits personal liberty," february 27, 1947, new york times …
Eben A. Ayers Oral History Interview, June 30, 1970
… [379] we carefully put it on a divan or sofa in the president's compartment where he and i sat on the way down. we talked baseball, i recall, because you know he played semi-pro ball when he was a young fellow. and we were about the same age, pretty nearly the same age, and both knew the same baseball names and had the same heroes of that era. so we had a pleasant trip down and i think i got better acquainted and …
Mrs. W. L. C. Palmer Oral History Interview
… until the end of world war ii, when we didn't have any use for wpa recreation anymore. we started crysler stadium for baseball and held band concerts in slover park band shell for wpa musician's orchestras. fuchs: you started the fha job … under the wpa recreation job, we feel like we started all this recreation that independence has. they had no place to play baseball and we got them to build the stadium down here on crysler street. we turned the first spade of dirt for that. but, … there; but when the wpa closed down, then the citizens of independence voted money for lights. so they have been having baseball games down there ever since. so, we always claimed wpa started recreation in independence, but i don't think we get …
H. Graham Morison Oral History Interview, August 1, 1972
… he previously had been riding roughshod over attorneys general for years, he recommended me to be the commissioner of baseball when happy chandler stepped down. but i had no [35] interest in baseball. after i left the department he used to invite me to lunch, every two weeks with him and clyde tolson, his deputy, …
Newton Bishop Drury Oral History Interview, Part I
… part in some debating--more after i got to berkeley high school and then in college. but while i played quite a little baseball, i was never in the class that made varsity teams or anything of that sort. newspaper work fry:you began working on … to automobiles. fry:you did other sports reporting too, didn't you? drury: yes. one of my adventures was reporting the baseball games with the sacramento team in the state league. i had to get there on time because i was official scorekeeper, … i "had an important engagement." for about a year i got away with it; they didn't know that i had been going to the baseball game until the truth finally leaked out when one of my schoolmates complained to the principal. so they canceled my …
Mary Ethel Noland Oral History Interview, August 23, 1965
… to school he was wearing glasses; and of course, that hindered his taking part in active games all his life. for instance, baseball, he couldn't play baseball, because he couldn't see well enough without the glasses, and of course he didn't dare keep them on to play; and it … to school he was wearing glasses; and of course, that hindered his taking part in active games all his life. for instance, baseball, he couldn't play baseball, because he couldn't see well enough without the glasses, and of course he didn't dare …
Records of the President's Committee on Civil Rights, Record Group 220
… of"-memo to the pres. comm on civil rights prep. by m. d. stewart and herbert kaufman racial discrimination in organized baseball-memo to the pres. comm. on civil rights, may 13, 1947 "reestablishment of peacetime society, the"-by general g. b. …
John J. Muccio Oral History Interview, December 27, 1973
… him pull the wool over our eyes. beyond that i don't know what could be done unless you could hit him over the head with a baseball bat. mckinzie: could you talk a bit, then, about the role of madame rhee in the conduct of south korean affairs? she …
John S. Service Oral History Interview, Chap V-VIII
… any white men ever doing any work. so, everyone had to stop working and watch us! [laughter] [280] j. service: we played baseball. barrett was insistent on having baseball, some exercise, some organized recreation. usually in the afternoon before supper he liked to have a baseball game. there was enough to just get up two teams. i was a very poor baseball player. i never learned in my youth, so …
Floyd T. Ricketts Oral History Interview
… battery? ricketts: i think bill [william a.] o'hare, an old buddy that i went to school with and grew up with and played baseball with. fuchs: what was his rank? ricketts: i think he was a corporal when we were at the convention hall. fuchs: do …
Dillon S. Myer Oral History Interview, Chap I-IV
… was a nickel to begin with; maybe it went up to a dime later. we went home from high school the same way. i used to go to baseball games and the grand circuit harness races occasionally by interurban. as i got old enough i would sneak away from home and let on that i had gone some place else if i went to a sunday baseball game because my dad did not favor sunday baseball games. hp: this interurban really made an enormous change, didn’t it? dsm: it opened up a whole new era. the opening …
Anthony A. Buford Oral History Interview
… ii the browns and the cardinals were champions of the leagues and they had the world series, senator truman came to the baseball games as my guest. then we just continued to have this relationship all through his senatorial career and later when …
Rear Platform and Other Informal Remarks in Illinois, Iowa, and Missouri
… people in this part of the world because i think as you do and you think as i do--i think. i understand that des moines' baseball team won the pennant this year in the western league. i've been trying to get kansas city to win the pennant in the …
Harry S. Truman Papers Post-Presidential Papers
… mrs. david barnes-barnett box 145 barnethu-barno baro-barrh barri-barry barry, frank m. bars-bartz barto-barz basa-baso baseball – athletics, blues, royals – kansas city box 146 baseball – invitations baseball – passes baseball – missouri invitations baseball – st. louis cardinals bass – basz bata – bats batt – batz batton, …
Tom L. Evans Oral History Interview, August 8, 1962
… think he even knew i existed -- and he handed me a little envelope and [30] in it was a pass to the kansas city blues baseball park, good for any game, myself and one -- a season pass. and i might say, jim, it made me about the biggest guy … or eight i was still in bed; and then in the afternoon i went out to the field club at 51st and swope parkway and played baseball and tennis. you don't want to work but about three or four hours a day on that job." well, i started out working …
Rear Platform and Other Informal Remarks in Texas and Oklahoma
… out to be about three or four thousand people, after we had already spoken to three or four times that many out at the baseball park. the washita valley here is one of the richest and most fertile valleys in the country, so i'm told. i don't …
Rear Platform Remarks in Washington
… you very much for that nice welcome. thank you. i understand you raise a lot of good things here--good milk cows, and good baseball teams, and good basketball players. i wish i could stop and see them all in operation. i expect some of you may have …
R. Gordon Arneson Oral History Interview
… administrative corps cared much about drilling anyway. my great claim to fame in officers candidate school was during a baseball match with another company. i wasn't much of a baseball player, and they put me out in left field where i would be harmless. it was the bottom of the ninth, two out, and …
Mary Paxton Keeley Oral History Interview
… "four eyes." every little boy that wore glasses was ridiculed for it, and harry had poor eyes. that meant he couldn't play baseball and other games like "shinny" and hockey--they were so afraid he'd break his glasses--i think [33] this helped make …
Shaw Livermore Oral History Interview
… was a very unpleasant character and a very shortsighted man. we used to call him "hairshirt." he wanted to abolish baseball. he wanted to abolish coca-cola. he had a lot of silly ideas about what should be done to make the civilians …
William H. Cunningham Oral History Interview
… [38] all the men were cut in on 5 gp, they called it, and he just talked all the way through. so you had just about like a baseball announcer’s view of what was going on. johnson: where did you get on board the missouri ? cunningham: out at sea …
John A. Kennedy Oral History Interview
… program for him. he was given a tour of the city, school children all came out, and he made a speech in what was then the baseball field. i had toured the middle west, particularly, on his campaign train, and when we left chicago i stayed there. …
Eugene Donnelly and Edward Meisburger Oral History Interview
… states. meisburger: murphy was at that time. donnelly: yes. eddie was a boxer too, for that matter, and we could pick a baseball team out of battery [7] d, and play regimental teams, or a football team that would play regimental teams, don't you …
Truman Gibson Oral History Interview
… world. [8] the beginning of our relationship with helping and receiving information was when jackie robinson, the great baseball star, got into what developed to be a serious situation on the drill field. he was in the last stages of officer …
Perry R. Hardin Oral History Interview
… secretaries would allow us to come over there and watch the president throw out the first ball at the washington senator's baseball game, or . . . johnson: on the tv set. hardin: on the tv set. johnson: in the oval office. hardin: right. johnson: …
Robert G. Nixon Oral History Interview, November 20, 1970
… of these scandals, the mink coat thing or the five percenters, when he went out to griffith stadium in washington for the baseball season's opening game. he was loudly booed there. he had never run into this type of rudeness before. there was not …
Judge Oliver J. Carter Oral History Interview
… the way he could reach out and get support of people. if he had run for re-election, you couldn't have beaten him with a baseball bat, he was that strong. fuchs: was mrs. douglas your first choice after downey? carter: well, yes, but i tried to … of san diego. we went to lane field which holds [101] twenty some odd thousand, and we had the bleachers -- that's a baseball field -- full and we had the infield and outfield full. he made a speech on a stand in the middle of the field. and …
Tom L. Evans Oral History Interview, April 17, 1963
… of mine--remember that [320] jim's father, is the man that i told you about giving me the pass to the kansas city blues baseball game because i was a pendergast goat democrat about ten years old? my folks lived across the street from mike …
Robert G. Nixon Oral History Interview, October 29, 1970
… l.a. again, there's the confusion of which trip was it. [565] on the occasion i recall, he made a speech at night out on a baseball diamond. my recollection is, that this was actually in hollywood, because the place was just loaded down with …
Abraham Feinberg Oral History Interview
… north carolina, was where we were going this day. one of my partners was a small but avid bettor on football games and baseball games, and he had a fellow who was almost a house bookie. he used to come during the week every week and line up the …
Walter H. Judd Oral History Interview, January 26, 1976
… had said, "the way to paris (meaning the west) is through peking." to get to china would be like getting first base in baseball. the rest of asia would be second base. the rest of the underdeveloped world--africa and latin america-would be third base. but plainly, the ultimate objective all along, just as in baseball, was home base: the north atlantic and the united states, where the power, industry, wealth of the free world are. …
James I. Loeb Oral History Interview, June 26, 1970
… a matter of fact, i had as many as seventy kids. we just took them to the public beaches, taught them how to swim, played baseball [ 5] with them, and charged their parents plenty, and i made more money that first summer, i think, than i did for …
Jonathan Daniels Oral History Interviews
… say, "jonathan, i wish you'd check on this." another thing i fooled with was the business of continuation of professional baseball in wartime; i didn't know anything about baseball, but i could work on that. then there was the business of a man named harry slattery, who was the head of the rural … dollars. he plays what i'm sure serious poker players would regard as a weird game -- all kinds of strange poker hands -- "baseball," i know is one of them, and we played poker and swam and drank a little whiskey and ate and had just a good time. …
James J. Rowley Oral History Interview
… i went to george washington high school and finished the term. i went to that public high school because they had a good baseball team, which was an inducement in those days. at the end of the semester, on june 30, 1926 my brother and i, both of …
Edgar C. Faris, Jr. Oral History Interview
… rockhurst, after you came back here, as a freshman. faris: yes, as a freshman, and i played football, basketball and baseball at rockhurst. from rockhurst i went to missouri university. fuchs: oh, you did. what year did you enter there? [6] … it." well, he didn't go. well, this kind of opened my eyes, you see, because even though he went into the priesthood, baseball was still always in his mind, and he trained more ball players in kansas city and sent up pitchers to the big …
Nash, Philleo Papers
… box 86 jefferson-jackson day dinner, 1954--washington, dc jefferson-jackson day dinner, 1955 [also has milwaukee braves baseball ticket stub] jefferson-jackson day dinner, 1956 jefferson-jackson day dinner, 1957 jefferson-jackson day dinner, … form letter—wisconsin election, 1958, l-z [2 of 2] cranberry controversy, 1959 cranberry night—milwaukee braves baseball game—photographs crew—full crew legislation defense procurement— economic aspects of military procurement and supply …
Frederick Osborn Oral History Interview
… was called, and there was a ti&e hour. someone either at the company or battalion level would come and talk about the baseball scores back home and have a little lesson on this or that topic. is that an innovation of yours? osborn: this was …