Word: coxes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Customers for big-league ball clubs do not grow on trees. But scarcely had the ink dried on the Nugents' check (guestimate: $39,000) when a half-dozen syndicates were scrambling for the Philly franchise. After several days Manhattan Socialite William Drought Cox, 33-year-old lumber broker who lost a reported $40,000 in the defunct New York Yankee professional football team, chirped up: "I'm the lucky...
Branch Rickey, Brooklyn Dodgers' boss, known and revered as "The Brain" in baseball circles, agreed with Cox. Said Rickey: "At the price [some $230,000], the lowest asked for a National League club in baseball history . . . there is a chance to get rich within ten years. . . . The new owners must be ready with enterprise, working capital, management, gameness, the spirit of adventure. . . . Even if the war stops baseball for a couple of seasons, the value of the Philadelphia club would be enhanced. . . . After two years of inactivity all the clubs would start from scratch...
...Cox was not sole purchaser of the Phillies. He heads a syndicate which includes nine other businessmen willing to take a chance...
...unsubtle comparisons of the Hitler and Roosevelt governments are mere hollow re-cchoings of the reactionary chant of the politically blind and deaf: the National Association of Manufacturers, the American Legion, the Tydings-Cox-Dics entente in Congress. His branding of Administration officials as "Nazi New Dealers" carries the systematic trend towards national distrust and confusion one step further. It borders on sedition...
...following were the students to receive the awards: George Bearcovitch '45, Warren Berg '44, Irving Herbert Berkovitch '45, John Lodge Cady '43, William R. Cox '46, William J. Furlong '44, Ralph Golstein '44, Thomas Montgomery Gregory, Jr. '44, Haskell Grodberg '44, Dean McDonald Hennessey '45, Raymond Koloski '45, Neunert Frederick Lang '44, Joseph M. Leahey '43, Donor Mitchell Lion '45, Frank A. O'Boyle, Jr. '46, Howard D. Sharpe, Jr. '44, Hans K. Subak '45, Edward Willett Wagner '45, Richard Joseph Ward '45, and Richard Lewis Warren...