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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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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, …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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. …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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: …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …