Word: billing
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Perhaps because of deficiency in that department against Columbia, the squad ran through a stint of passing at yesterday's session, with Bill Henry, Cal Lowenstein, Jim Noonan, and Chuck Roche working in different combinations with the Freshmen putting up a passive defense. This was followed by running play drill, after which the squad retired to Briggs Cage to prepare their defenses for the Big Red next Saturday...
Thirdly, the story of Jethroe is not all peaches and cream. Sam is not a good judge of a fly ball, and whether he has a great throwing arm is of little consequence if he isn't there when the ball comes down. Nobody, not even Bill Cunningham, will be able to rave about Jethroe as a defensive player. And Sam is already 30 years old, with not more than four or five years of good baseball in him. Since Rickey's present outfield averages 25 years, why should be add an old man of 30 and bring...
...Government is to keep its promises . . . to the American farmer under the present price support program." With these politicking words for the folks on the farm, Michigan's Republican Congressman Jesse Wolcott, 28 years in Congress as "a friend of the farmer," last week suggested a bill to raise the CCC's borrowing power to $5.7 billion, an increase of a cool $1 billion...
...idea of a gradual reduction of price props, and substitutes much higher support prices pegged to an "income support standard." This would guarantee farmers an income as fat as the one they have enjoyed in the past ten years, with little thought for non-farmers who must foot the bill in taxes. This week, ex-Agriculture Secretary Clinton P. Anderson blasted the plan as unworkable...
...Berle, who seemed more popular than presidents or prize fights, apparently was taking no chances on losing any viewers, even to Uptown Jubilee. Duke Ellington was a guest on his opening show. Announced for the second: Dodger Jackie Robinson and Dancer Bill Robinson...