Word: baseness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Captain George Sarbacher Jr., 27, one of the youngest members of the 80th Congress, and still on active Marine Corps duty at the Philadelphia Naval Base; son of George W. Sarbacher, veteran G.O.P. leader in Philadelphia's 43rd ward. Because of Marine regulations, Sarbacher did not speak during his campaign meetings, but won by taking bows and riding Pennsylvania's Republican landslide...
...Task Force 68 will be lean, bouncy Captain Richard H. Cruzen (No. 2 to Byrd and skipper of the Bear in the 1939-41 foray). He will have under him twelve ships in three groups, to cover the widest possible area in the short season of light. When a base is set up on the Ross Shelf Ice, planes will be flown in from a carrier...
...When Russian troops frighten Iran," Somerville said, "we make a first-class base of it. when British troops threaten Iran, our State Department, with surpassing eloquence, says nothing...
Publicity-wise Yankee President Larry MacPhail, who knew better, let the talk grow. He had picked his manager two weeks ago. This week, with great ado, he let the world in on his little secret. Shrewd Stanley ("Bucky") Harris, 49, known in the trade as a gentleman and a base-hit scholar, will run the Yankees...
...manager (the Boss is an old admirer of blustery Leo Durocher). The answer may be that the 1947 Yankees will be run by a triumvirate: MacPhail handing down orders from his ivory tower; Harris passing them on in the dugout. The man on the coaching lines (at third base) will be Coach Chuck Dressen, recently hired away from the Dodgers, and one of the best detail men in baseball...