Word: club
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...White Flag (Stalinist) Communists; and 4) the White Band (People's Volunteer Organization), followers of assassinated Premier Aung San (TIME, July 28, 1947). Recently the P.V.O. has shown signs that it was willing to cooperate with the government. Government officials show up regularly at the Rangoon Turf Club to instill public confidence, badly shaken by the sound of gunfire from the Insein front ten miles away. Last week racegoers gossiped hopefully of the current visit of P.V.O. General Bo La Yaung (his name means "Officer Moonshine") to the government's army chief, Bo Ne Win ("Officer Sunshine...
...briefly and unsuccessfully, sold out and virtually retired. While McClure's degenerated into a snappy-stories magazine-and folded for good in 1933-McClure lived on at Manhattan's elegant, decaying Murray Hill Hotel (TIME, May 5, 1947). He spent long hours at the Union League Club writing a history of freedom and other forgotten books, and was almost forgotten himself. Last week, at 92, S. S. McClure died...
...major and minor leagues, and Commissioner Happy Chandler with violating the antitrust laws. His lawyers claimed that he had been denied his livelihood by the reserve clause in his contract with the Giants; the injustice in the clause, they said, was the binding of a player to a club for the entirety of his baseball life. In February, the U.S. Court of Appeals returned the case to a lower court, voting 2 to 1 in favor of Gardella's charge of "peonage...
Officers and members of the 28 New England Harvard Clubs will gather Saturday, April 9 for a regional meeting. It will be sponsored jointly by the University, the Associated Harvard Clubs, and the Harvard Club of Boston...
...Harvard Club of Boston is the scene of activities from 5:30 p.m. on. At 6:30 p.m. a dinner will be held, with President Conant, Provost Buck, and Dean Bender speaking briefly on "Harvard in a Changing World...