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1924: World Series
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Founded in 1924, the American Heart Association today is the nation's oldest and largest voluntary health organization dedicated to reducing disability and death from diseases of the heart and stroke. These diseases, America's No. 1 and No. 3 killers, and all other cardiovascular diseases claim over 870,000 lives a year. In fiscal year 2005-06 the association invested over $543 million in research, professional and public education, advocacy and community service programs to help all Americans live longer, healthier lives. To learn more, call 1-800-AHA-USA1 or visit http://www.americanheart.org.
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Founded in 1924, LOMA is an international trade association for insurance and financial services companies. Committed to a business partnership with its worldwide members to improve their management and operations, LOMA offers a wide variety of products and services, including current industry information, analysis and assessment tools, education and training programs, research, and networking opportunities.
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Game seven of the 1924 World Series went 12 innings, with Washington the winner. The game was decided by two bad-hop hits over third baseman Freddy Lindstrom's head, and comical misplays by New York catcher Hank Gowdy and shortstop Travis Jackson. Walter Johnson got the win in relief, his first career World Series victory.
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Additionally, 1924 saw an industry first when the Hudson Motor Co. introduced the second series Coach at $1500. Yes a closed automobile could now be had for the same price as a comparable open car, in this case the 7 passenger Phaeton. Of further note, the price of the Coach actually dropped to $1395 by the end of the year pricing it below even the five passenger Phaeton.
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John McGraw's last appearance, in the 1924 World Series, made him the only manager ever to lose two deciding World Series games in overtime. As in the 1912 loss to the Red Sox, the Giants lost on a misplayed pop foul that gave a Senators batter a second chance. McGraw won only three of the nine World Series in which he managed. He lost more Series games (28) than any manager in history.
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Republican prospects for retaining the White House were suspect going into 1924. President Harding had died the previous August before news of a series of scandals had become generally known. His successor, the tight-lipped Calvin Coolidge, surprised many Republican leaders by becoming a popular figure with a public that valued prosperity more than a dashing chief executive. Coolidge was renominated for a second term on the first ballot of the Republican convention in Cleveland. Charles G. Dawes of Illinois was the vice-presidential nominee in proceedings that were the first to be broadcast over radio. The united party devoted most of its energies to self-congratulation and managed to avoid an internal clash over the influence of the resurgent Ku Klux Klan; their main opponents would not be so fortunate.
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