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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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
Harry S. Truman Papers: White House Central Files: President's Personal File
… an american day” box 553 ppf 467 yale, dr. f. a. ppf 468 sports; recreation; games ppf 468-a sports, recreation, games - baseball, 1945-1949 ppf 468-a sports, recreation, games - baseball, 1950-1953 ppf 468-b sports, recreation, games - horse racing ppf 468-c sports, recreation, games - football ppf … 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 …
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, …
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 …
Harry S. Truman Papers: White House Central Files: Official File
… athletics; sports, 1950 box 709 of 189 recreation; athletics; sports, 1951-1953 of 189-a recreation; athletics; sports - baseball, 1945-1950 [1 of 2] of 189-a recreation; athletics; sports - baseball, 1945-1950 [2 of 2] of 189-a recreation; athletics; sports - baseball, 1951-1953 of 189-b recreation; athletics; sports - horse racing of 189-c recreation; athletics; sports - football, …
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 …