Word: calls
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...groups, of Ruhr industrialists and Christian trade unionists, the C.D.U. owes its political effectiveness to Adenauer. Dignified and charming in a stately sort of way, he smoothed party crises with the silk-gloved infighting tactics he had used with his city council in Cologne. Political friends and enemies alike call...
This season, the Cardinals haven't gotten together on one song. Freckle-faced Infielder Red Schoendienst, Musial's roommate and constant companion, is soothed by Ah! Sweet Mystery of Life and Indian Love Call. Musial is a boogie-woogie bug. Pitcher Pollet likes Brahms and Beethoven, never hears either in the clubhouse. North Carolina-born Pitcher...
...seen enough poverty to be hardheaded about money, and he signed the contract with misgivings: the Cardinals had a reputation for paying their help poorly. In 1938, when the late Judge Landis decreed that 91 Cardinal farmhands (including Musial) were free agents, Stan sat back again and awaited a call from Pittsburgh. Instead he had a personal visit from Eddie Dyer. After a long apprenticeship as a minor-league manager, persuasive Eddie Dyer had become a supervisor of Cardinal farm clubs. After listening to Dyer for an hour, Stan said: "If I were your kid brother, what would you advise...
...before a House subcommittee last week strode the Federal Trade Commission's Lowell B. Mason. Under his arm was a new FTC report on the concentration of economic power in the U.S. Brooklyn's Congressman Emanuel Celler considered the 96-page report important enough to call his subcommittee into special session to hear it. What the committee heard was a collection of giant-sized facts...
...festival." But on opening night, before a jammed audience in Usher Hall, he was right there, ready, and with Franck, Sibelius, Brahms and Berlioz, he put on as good a show as ever. When he waved the men of his Royal Philharmonic to their feet on the fourth curtain call, they sat still; he howled at them in mock fury, then turned to the delighted audience: "You have observed, ladies and gentlemen, that this orchestra has every sort of virtue but one-obedience...