Word: connor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Third Tongue. There were three things which moved "T. V. O'C." (Mr. O'Connor, Chairman of the Shipping Board) to utterance. First, the half-unpropped prestige of the Shipping Board had been jolted by the dispute over the sale of five vessels to the Dollars. Second, a group of professional tonnage-lords was meeting in private in Manhattan (see below). Third, the country, having few other matters of immediate importance to consider, might lend an ear to his troubles-a monster armada of idle ships. So T. V. O'C. spoke. His plan...
...Connor's "bonus" is merely a new name for an old plan known as "subsidy...
...Connor's plan is nebulous. What would happen to U. S. crews on U. S. ships not bought from the Shipping Board? In the case of a mixed crew, how conciliate the non-bonused? What an enormous bookkeeping expense...
Fifth Tongue. The President let it be known that he doubted whether Mr. O'Connor's proposed bonus or subsidy bill would be acceptable to the next Congress unless strongly advocated by naval experts as preparedness...
...base hit, Linscott. Stolen bases, Nordberg, Lindstrom, Hurley, Jordon. Sacrifice hits, Nordberg, Kelley, Strickland. Base on balls, off Strickland 3, off Barbee 1. Struck out, by Strickland 13, by Barbee 7. Left on bases, Harvard 4, Worcester 6. Time, 2h, 15m. Umpire, O'Connor...