Word: balle
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...platform makers had overlooked the determination of the Northerners, whose volatile Americans for Democratic Action had drafted a minority report. A.D.A.'s spokesman was Hubert Horatio Humphrey Jr., 37, mayor of Minneapolis, who has a fast and facile tongue, political courage, and is opposing Joe Ball for Senator in November. The A.D.A. amendment commended Harry Truman for "his courageous stand on the issue of civil rights," and in somewhat obscure words urged Congress, in effect, to repeal the poll tax, set up FEPC, make lynching a federal offense, and end segregation in the armed services...
...Harry Truman. In the last three years, as Truman's Senate leader, he was often caught flatfooted by Administration proposals of which he had had no previous notice. On one such occasion he angrily told a White House aide: "This is like playing catcher in a night ball game. I not only am not getting the signals, but someone actually turns out the lights when the ball is tossed...
...Favorite Husband (Fri. 9 p.m., CBS). Lucille Ball in a new comedy series...
...Chase around the bag, but you're a good player and a great hitter. I want you to show a little life . . ." Then he singled out Catcher Walker Cooper: "When you see a pitcher throw what I call a 'lazy pitch,' fire the ball back at him and wake him up." The Giants seemed to get the general idea...
...boss, Howard Hughes. Pink slips were going out to over half of the employees. Just starting this week, however, was a picture that would be right down Hughes's alley-a virile saga of professional football (the Los Angeles Rams) called Interference, starring Victor Mature and Lucille Ball. "Just wait," someone said, "until Junior gets his teeth into that...