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...first inning of a four-game series between the rowdy Pittsburgh Pirates and the noisy Brooklyn Dodgers. Umpire George Barr called Pirate Bob Elliott out at home, and got not-too-gently pushed for his pains. He promptly ordered Elliott out of the game. When Manager Frank (ex-"Fordham Flash") Frisch hurled a caustic comment from the bench, he too got the royal thumb. Elliott drew a $50 fine from National League president Ford Frick; Frisch was fined...
...182Writing for Thought, Fordham University Quarterly, Authors Frederick Haussman and Daniel Ahearn explained why cartels are causing such a stir. They estimated that 42% of the world's trade between 1929 and 1937 was controlled by cartels, then predicted: "International cartels will increase in size, number and power in the postwar period...
...County Kerry immigrant, Tom Curran was born in Manhattan's old Tenth Ward, the overwhelmingly Democratic district which produced Al Smith. Teddy Roosevelt was his boyhood hero. He put himself through Fordham's law school after army service in World War I and then worked his way steadily upward in New York Republican politics to the job of secretary of state and the inner circle of young men around the fast rising Tom Dewey...
Albert Einstein, gentle genius, staunch individualist, proposed to a Manhattan meeting of intellectuals a worldwide union of brainworkers. Objectives: 1) economic security;* 2) political power. Objected Fordham's president, the Rev. Robert Ignatius Gannon, S.J.: "Dr. Einstein is a symbol of the mental confusion he is trying to remedy...
...Iron Major" Frank W. Cavanaugh ("Old Cav"), late famed football coach of Boston College and Fordham, stalked across the columns of a Cassino casualty list: "Staff Sergeant David F. Cavanaugh, next of kin, Mrs. Florence E. Cavanaugh. ..." The sergeant (he is now recovering from face wounds) was "Dear Dave" of the Major's immortal letter home from the France of World War I. Wrote the Major to his son: ". . . You must always remember that your father came into this great war for the sake of all little children, and I know that you will, while I am gone, take...