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Niles's job was to push minority causes before the President, placate the sponsors when he failed, and work hard to keep their votes in the Democratic corral. He was probably more responsible than any other man in the Truman Administration in 1948 for swinging U.S. policy behind the Zionists and making possible the birth of Israel...
...move a last minute attempt by retiring Commissioner Chandler to prove his indispensible political influence. Whatever the lawmakers may say, the reserve clause is essential. Without it, signing of contracts every year would turn into a running dogfight between the owners and players, in which the rich clubs would corral the best talent. Further, owners would not pour thousands of dollars into the huge farm systems which produce the ballplayers, without assurance that players thus developed would not join another club later...
Totty is the answer to a Nieman Fellow's prayer. She knows where to find an apartment, how to corral baby-sitters, locations of good restaurants, and answers to the other 11,999 questions she gets the first day. And she has a small fee with the 12,000th answer--to coerce an outgoing newsman into putting a nickel into her parking meter...
...Small Peanuts." The Senators quizzed Anthony Anastasia and his brother Albert, the rich Brooklyn mobster and onetime Murder, Inc. suspect who never stood trial, although District Attorney O'Dwyer once described the Anastasia case as "the perfect murder case." They failed to corral Gambler Frank Erickson (who preferred to stay in his Rikers Island cell, where he is serving a two-year rap for bookmaking). But the committee pulled in Underworld Big Shot Meyer Lansky, Gamblers Gerard Catena and James ("Niggy") Rutkin, who entered the hearings protesting: "I'm small peanuts. Why don't these Hollywood investigators...
...corral small-fry depositors, Atlanta's Citizens' and Southern National Bank twirled a new rope last week. It set up a Hopalong Cassidy's Saving Rodeo. For a minimum deposit of $2, Hoppy's worshipers got a "tenderfoot" badge and a plastic bank shaped to look like their hero. As their savings grow, so will their rank-from "wrangler" (a $10 account) to "Bar 20 Foreman" ($500). For all this, the bank paid Cassidy a set fee: 50? per new account plus $1 for the thrift kit. In four days the Citizens' National, Georgia...