Word: actions
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...medical staff gave him the final okay Monday, and Huntington, last springs' regular second baseman, may see part-time action today or Saturday against Army...
...Steel's Chairman Irving S. Olds was cool enough. He calmly used the management's 8,889,042 proxy votes to kill a proposal to move the annual meeting to Manhattan. Olds's action roused Stockholder Wilma Soss (five shares), who recently founded the Federation of Women Shareholders in American Business, Inc. Mrs. Soss had come to the meeting dressed in a 1901 costume with mutton-chop sleeves and ostrich-plumed hat. As Chairman Olds and President Benjamin F. Fairless listened in polite boredom, Stockholder Soss sassed them. Her costume, she said, was appropriate for a management...
...Paris embassy and concealed aboard the Paris-Trieste-Zagreb express. As the train rushes on through the night, the plot drags tediously from one compartment to another, deliberately involving a whole gallery of British tintypes, a sprinkling of Frenchmen and a lone American G.I. In the resultant overcrowding, both action and suspense are very nearly suffocated. Following in a long line of brilliant British thrillers-on-wheels (e.g., Night Train, The Lady Vanishes), Sleeping Car rides at the end of a slow freight...
...suspended the Giants' bad-tempered manager as a "preventive" not a "punitive action." The evidence assembled against Durocher had been "contradictory" and he was lifting the four-day suspension...
...freshman squad beat down Tabor Academy, 10 to 1, on the Tabor home grounds Saturday in a game which saw the whole squad go into action. Dune McCallum and Lou Schaffer were high scorers for the Crimson in this sixth victory, each scoring three points...