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Word: brooklyn (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ninth inning at Brooklyn's Ebbets Field, the St. Louis Cardinals were leading the Dodgers, 2-to-0. The Cards' Ron Northey smacked a long drive to center field. As Northey sprinted for third base, Field Umpire John Edward ("Beans") Reardon waved his arm in a circle over his head to indicate an automatic home run and (according to Northey) emphasized his point by shouting: "What are you running for? It's a home run." Plump Ron Northey gratefully slowed to a dogtrot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Beans in the Soup | 8/4/1947 | See Source »

...boys picked up the phrase from a Brooklyn street squabble. They turned it over in their minds a bit, then, with piano, guitar and bass, tooled up a tune. By nightfall, "Nicholas, don't be so ridic'lus" was a song...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Ya Ess Goony Gress | 7/28/1947 | See Source »

Last week, as it has to most businesses, the first strike came to a major U.S. bank, the Brooklyn Trust Co. What touched it off was the discharge of three employees who were members of C.I.O.'s left-wing Financial Employees Guild, which has been trying to organize the bank. (The union claimed that 65% of the employees got $35 a week or less, and even had to buy their own pencils.) As a starter, the union massed about 150 pickets-many from other unions-outside the bank's main office. A number of them got their heads...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BANKING: First Blood | 7/28/1947 | See Source »

Next day the union tried a novel picketing technique. Like many banks, the Brooklyn Trust's doors are adorned by brass handrails. Three women pickets-not bank employees-handcuffed themselves together and linked themselves as a human chain to the door rails, thus blocking the entrance. It took a patrolman with a hacksaw to cut the girls loose. At week's end, the bank said some 50 out of 800 employees were on strike and banking was going on as usual...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BANKING: First Blood | 7/28/1947 | See Source »

Died. Walter Donaldson, 54, Brooklyn-born composer whose Mammy and My Blue Heaven made him one of the brightest of Tin Pan Alley's neon lights; of a liver ailment; in Santa Monica, Calif...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jul. 28, 1947 | 7/28/1947 | See Source »

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