Word: branches
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...with Mexico's Pasquel brothers. The Pasquels promptly hollered that he owed them $26,000. Said Mickey: "I don't owe them nothing." Presumably, under Baseball Commissioner Happy Chandler's rules, Mickey Owen was banned from U.S. organized ball for five years. But Brooklyn Dodger President Branch Rickey, badly in need of a catcher for his team's stretch drive, was ready to forgive & forget. He argued that Mickey's case was different, since he went straight from the Navy to Mexico, without signing a 1946 Dodger contract. Other ballplayers (the loudest of them...
That U.S. voters have no voice in the selection of such prompters and choremen-who may exercise far-reaching power-is a fact that concerns practical as well as academic politicians. But there is nothing that can be done about it: the executive branch has grown too large for close and effective democratic control. The nation can only pray that its White House gangs are men of competence and high principle...
...year-old Ph.D. candidate's latest honors are the Woodbury Lowery Travel Fellowship and a grant for field work from the Social Research Council, a branch of the Rockefeller Foundation...
Furry, formerly active in work on the Manhattan District project which led up to the successful development of the atomic bomb, is now a member of the Cambridge branch of the national organization of atomic scientists...
...solution for the shrinking dollar of student veterans was offered by a man who identified himself as Mr. Hayes, president of the Boston branch of the Hayes-Bickford Lunch System. In following up a complaint (verified) about the reduction in size of a ten-cent bottle of milk, an editor was explaining how student veterans were particularly affected...