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Milton P. Kayle Oral History Interview
… of texas politics. i suppose i have achieved a reputation in that area. we did pioneering work with the major league baseball players' association, with marvin miller, whom i know very well, in "group rights" licensing. i'm still very active … on which i did visit the white house. in the early 1950's the company i worked with represented jackie robinson, the baseball star, in some of his post-career business ventures, one of which involved a possible tie-in with a public housing …
Sheet Music Collection
… chain ball of cotton ballad of valley forge balletmusik und hochzeitszug barcarolle barchetta barnum had the right idea baseball for boys bataan defenders battle hymn of the united nations be kind to the boys in uniform be mine today and forever …
Stephen J. Spingarn Oral History Interview, March 23, 1967
… and he had been appointed by mr. truman, with whom he was on the best of terms. in fact, every year, lowell mason gave a baseball party at the opening of the baseball season, which the president attended, and it was a big thing. it was the first game at griffith stadium. and i was …
McKinley Wooden Oral History Interview, August 31, 1988
… ate right across the table from me. we had him down there. of course, he was young then, yes. and you've heard of that baseball pitcher from the cardinals, old alexander? ferrell: grover cleveland alexander? [35] wooden: yes, one of the …
Brigadier General Louis H. Renfrow Oral History Interview
… in i'll meet chandler and say how-do-you-do, and turn him over to schneider," because chandler was then commissioner of baseball. "he's in here to fuss about some baseball player that he wants exempted from the service." so when chandler came over he had his publicity man, his …
Robert B. Landry Oral History Interview, March 1-2, 1983
… say you went to a jesuit school there in new orleans. landry: i had been a pretty good student. yes. i played football and baseball and basketball and tennis. yes, i had been a very good student. i just was blasé, i think, at the academy because, … forerunner of the---- ahmann: the helicopter. landry: the eggbeater, the helicopter. [17] ahmann: you also got your "a" in baseball then? landry: yes. i had gotten my letter at jesuits in football, baseball, basketball, and i was runner-up for the city championship in play. i played bevo sutter, one of the sutter boys. …
Roger Tubby Oral History Interview
… evening at the poker table when i first went down, because they played very wild cards, one-eyed jacks, [98] two's wild, baseball, high-low, etc., which i had not played before, and in no time at all i was really in the hole. i think the …
Edward D. McKim Oral History Interview, February 19, 1964
… time wasn't right for him to visit us. he wanted to come very much. he wanted to come in the summertime. he was a great baseball fan. "chi chi” -- i got to know "chi chi" very well. he was the strong man of panama. he had been chief of police …
May (Mary Frances) Wallace Oral History Interview
… very good ever. so he'd take his book, and sit down on the bank and read and let her fish. johnson: did you ever play baseball, or softball, or any games? wallace: well, my husband was george, and the other brother was frank, and they both …
White House Central Files: President's Personal File
… ppf 466 – a “i am an american day” box 553 ppf 467 yale, dr. f. a. ppf 468 sports – recreation – games ppf 468 – a baseball (1945-49) ppf 468 – a baseball (1950-53) ppf 468 – b horse racing ppf 468 – c football ppf 468 – d horseshoe pitching ppf 468 – e yachting ppf 468 … e., jr. ppf 4114 national builders association – aiken, w. h. ppf 4115 mooneyham, robert a. ppf 4116 new orleans charity baseball association ppf 4117 le moyne college, syracuse, new york ppf 4118 the flatlands dutch reformed church, brooklyn, …
Andrew J. Biemiller Oral History Interview
… a fit one day on the floor by just calmly saying, in the middle of some debate about negro rights, that i had played baseball on a grade school team with five blacks and four whites. my god, i thought he'd have apoplexy, you know. john rankin …
Richard Cull Jr. Oral History Interview
… [9] reading editor and publisher , the magazine of the newspaper business, that it's like going to the minor leagues in baseball and working yourself up to the majors. you develop your skills that way. besides, newspapers today hire more …
John S. Service Oral History Interview, Chap I-II
… no chinese. they taught nothing about china. they didn’t teach the language or anything like this. we even tried to play baseball and american football and basketball, but not sports where we could compete with any other schools, because no one else in shanghai played baseball except for the american community team. we were rather foolish, i thought, in pursuing american sports. that’s when …
Newton Bishop Drury Oral History Interview, Part II
… of them as time goes on. he had very broad interests in many things, and in his youth he was quite an athlete. he played baseball. he even did some boxing. but in his latter years, he was more of an indoor athlete and did those things as most of us do--vicariously. but he was an expert on baseball and interested in all sports. he wasn't a hunter or a fisherman. in his latter years, he did very little hiking, … to protect the feeder roots next to the tree from trampling feet. yet the last time i was there, i found the terminus of a baseball diamond about a hundred feet from the hooker oak--one of the many examples of what might be very damaging from an …
John S. Service Oral History Interview, Chap IX-XI
… near seven corners. it's all built up now, but in those days it was country. this was summer time, of course. they had a baseball game every sunday afternoon, and a lot of washington people would show up, and people from the washington post , … a man named al friendly. i got to know a great many people. currie had been part of the same group, but he wasn't the baseball playing type, and he, at this time, wasn't associating with them at all apparently. ben cohen, i used to see …
J. Burke Knapp Oral History Interviews
… of the united states; and will clayton, the assistant secretary of state. now, fred vinson was a former semiprofessional baseball player. he had come up through politics, he had been a member of congress; a very shrewd cookie, a very tough …
Democratic National Committee Records
… march 1949 remarks on drew pearson (s.o.b. incident), february 22, 1949 district of columbia home rule attendance at baseball games remarks to president's committee on national employ the physically handicapped week, august 30, 1949 address … on crime, march 29, 1951 relations with federal reserve board, 1951 references and statements to mccarthyism opening of baseball season, griffith stadium, april 1951 democratic women's day speech, september 27, 1951 library clippings files, …
Bernard Bernstein Oral History Interview
… had arranged to get the plane pulled out of the ditch. he told me to look at the airfield; that it's about the size of a baseball park and there was a mountain at the end of it. i asked him if he thought he could make it. he said he thought he …
John R. Steelman Oral History Interview by Fed Mediation and Conciliation Service
… yes. yes. ross: . . . bargain and. . . . steelman: that's right. that's right. ross: . . . people in entertainment, baseball players, football players and so forth. (laughter) and that it may be a maturing process. steelman: that's right. …
Stephen J. Spingarn Oral History Interview, March 24, 1967
… fails, it will not be tried again in our time, obviously, because two strikes and you're out in most leagues outside of baseball. it would be a long time before anybody had the gumption to try it again. i want to refer any historians who hear or …
To Secure These Rights
… elimination of racial bans or differentials in employment practices by many business concerns, and the employment of negro baseball players by teams in both major leagues, deserve high praise. similarly, one recent survey of negro progress, made by …
White House Central Files: Official File
… [2 of 3] of 189 recreation; athletics; sports, 1945-1949 [3 of 3] of 189 1950 box 709 of 189 1951-1953 of 189 - a baseball, 1945-1950 [1 of 2] of 189 - a baseball, 1945-1950 [2 of 2] of 189 - a 1951-1953 of 189 - b horse racing of 189 - c football, 1945-1947 [1 of 2] of 189 - c …