Word: billing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Starting at attack position tomorrow will be stickmen Ned Yost, George Bender, and Bob Baldwin. Yost will be playing the crease. Defensemen will be Bill Spence, Ned Maroony, and Stan Brager, while Dick Thomas and Dunk McCullum will alternate as goalie. Rip Lynch, who was supposed to start as one of the midfielders, is out with injuries. The two midfielders definitely starting are Al Sawyer and Pete Brookes...
Only three positions are definitely settled: Bill Goodman catching, Win Carduff at second base, and Ben Akillian a center field. Jack Donelan will play left field when he isn't pitching and will bat clean-up until somebody else proves a more reliable slugger...
...rest of the team breaks down into a competition between Tim wise and Al Switzer for the regular first base job, a four-way scramble for the right field berth, and a fight between Bill Rickey and Charlie Cabot to see if Henry Young plays short with Hickey at third or third with Cabot at short...
...handed forays into the field of civil liberties that citizens of this Commonwealth have been treated to during the current Big Red Scare, House bill 1943 is probably the worst. This document, sponsored by Representative John J. Toomey of Cambridge, would amend the State Constitution to prohibit "persons promoting, furthering, or participating in any movements which are subversive to our American form of government or advocating theories or doctrines contrary to and inconsistent with the constitution of this commonwealth and of the United States" from voting or holding public office...
President Conant took the opposing view, claiming that public schools must have national help in the form of government subsidies. He added that the bill specifically provides against federal control over the schools...