Word: dealings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Pipe Dream." When the President rose to make his off-the-cuff speech he had a crowd which could hardly wait to cheer. He stoutly defended the 81st Congress and the Fair Deal. "My political philosophy," he said, "is based on the Sermon on the Mount." He went on to lay down a proposition that would be heard again & again in the off-year election campaign; he hoped, he said, that the U.S. could eventually raise its income from $200 billion to $300 billion a year-enough to bring the national average to $4,000 a family. "That...
Dean Kerby-Miller will discuss opportunities for graduate study and honors candidacy. Miss Stedman's topic will deal with the services of the Appointment Bureau, the current employment situation, and job-hunting...
Uncle Branch Rickey, the pious deacon of Montague Street, Brooklyn, concluded the first of his autumn deals Saturday with Lou Perini. This bargain sent minor league outfielders Sam Jethroe and Bob Addis to the Braves in return for six unannounced players in the Boston chain and a bale of cash (total also unannounced). We may he sure that Rickey did not got the worst of the deal, but for a change the other party, in this case Perini, did not get hopelessly chisled. We may also be sure that the total of the each in question surpassed...
...then did Uncle Branch sell Jethroe, an acknowledged swiftie, a solid line drive hitter, and the possessor of an excellent throwing arm? For one thing, there was the price. A cryptic paragraph in the New York Times stated that the Addis-Jethroe deal provided enough revenue for Ricky to be able to write off the losses of last fall's unfortunate venture into the All-America football conference. The loss on the football Dodgers in 1948 has been conservatively estimated at $300,000. And Rickey got six minor leaguers to boot (whose names will be given on October...
...stride because "it is the most satisfying medium of production ever known. It puts a premium on sincerity and honesty." To achieve "sincerity," he will rely more on pantomimes for his oldtime songs than on vocalists ("After all, everybody knows the lyrics"). There will also be a good deal of folksy comment from the maestro ("Doggone, here I am jabbering away like . . . like . . . well, a magpie...