Word: behinder
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...play and that Phfiester, the pitcher, grabbed the "Iron Man" after the ball had bounced off the back of Joe's neck, on the throw-in by Hoffman. McGinity managed to throw the ball over near third where a fan captured it. Steinfeld grabbed the fan from behind and during the struggle Floyd Kroh . . . rushed from the bench and rescued the ball, returning it to Evers. O'Day watched the mix-up and after seeing Evers with the ball standing on second walked off the diamond?reserving his decision on Merkle's out until he was away from the crowd...
...nomination was bitterly fought because, once a Wisconsin Liberal, he had turned Conservative, had hindered the Senate's Oil Scandals investigation, had lobbied for power interests. His confirmation by the Senate was first-class news. Like all Senate votes on presidential nominations, the vote was taken in "executive session," behind closed doors, secretly...
...correspondents glaring at him from the gallery, he admitted that he had "committed some offense" by his slur upon their ethics and added: "Ethically the action of the newspaper man is not comparable in its meanness with that of the Senator himself who violates the rules and then hides behind the newspaper man. . . . The person to punish is the Senator who is guilty and I hope the Senate will not get it into its mind that we are starting out to persecute any newspaper...
This did not mollify the Press Gallery. Behind Newsman Mallon they took their stand, the while jibing him about a possible jail sentence. Born at Mattoon, Ill., a product of the Notre Dame journalism school, he had cub-reported on Louisville papers, joined the United Press in New York in 1919, been shifted to Washington in 1921. With the Senate now on his trail, he became a Public Character. He made a talkie for Pathé Newsreel, into which Pathé edited a shot of an Abraham Lincoln impersonator declaiming the Gettysburg finale...
...first floor and basement will be turned over to the use of the Library where various miscellaneous activities now carried on behind the scenes in Widener will find place. Book bindings, cataloguing of unclassified works and the storage of some few volumes, duplicate books, or books that have lost any value in the Library, will be located on these floors. Many of the old or duplicate books will be temporarily placed here before their sale to second hand dealers or miscellaneous buyers...