Word: bucked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...contract that calls for a flat $10,000 a week, an extra $200 for every point over 20 he registers with C. A. B. (Crossley). Whatever his incentive, the going will be tough. With only half the time on NBC that Allen has on CBS, Cantor will have to buck one of the most ingenious wags in the land...
Rather than waste Buck Newsom or Schoolboy Rowe against Cleveland's Boy Wonder, Manager Del Baker started Floyd Giebell, a right-handed rookie brought up from Buffalo only ten days before. A gawky stringbean who had lost more games this season than he had won, Rookie Giebell looked like a sacrificial lamb as he ambled out to the mound. But no lamb was Giebell that day. With cunning change of pace and the control of an oldtimer, the green-as-grass rookie shut out the Indians...
Generalissimo of the clangorous army of Tin Pan Alleymen is long, lean, grey Songwriter Gene Buck, president of ASCAP (American Society of Composers, Authors & Publishers). ASCAP holds performing rights to a mighty volume of sound: 1,270,000 musical compositions. Last week in San Francisco, at the word from Generalissimo Buck, ASCAP shock troops made a vigorous sortie. Their enemy was Broadcast Music Inc. (BMI), formed by radio chains. Sooner than sign contracts to pay bigger fees for ASCAP tunes after next Jan. 1, the networks vow to use music from BMI, which by then will control 10,000 numbers...
...gnomes who do the U. S. Army's higher bookkeeping in Washington had to tear up their old pay tables, get to work on new ones. Reason: Congress had voted, along with conscription, to attract young volunteers into the Army and Marine Corps by upping the pay of buck privates from $21 to $30 a month. Also voted were increases for first-class privates (from $30 to $36 a month), corporals ($42 to $54), sergeants ($54 to $60).* The raises would be effective only after four months of service. To many prospective volunteers these looked like niggardly bribes...
Vice-Chairmen--Professors Paul H. Buck, Mason Hammond, and Charles H. Taylor, and Richard M. Gummere; secretary, Philip Hofer; treasurer, Harold J. Coolidge; counsellors--William P. Bunyon, President Ada L. Comstock of Radcliffe, Professor Samuel H. Cross, Henry R. Hope, Dean James M. Landis of the Harvard Law School, Miss Gladys H. McCafferty, Professor Edward S. Mason, John M. Russell, and Professors Arthur M. Schlesinger and Warren A. Seavey...