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...Play Ball." Then Veeck fetched up a gag calculated to rouse angry mutterings throughout baseball's official hierarchy. Against the Detroit Tigers, Veeck led off his batting order with the strangest figure ever to wear a major-league uniform: brandishing a toy bat, a midget (3 ft. 7 in.) named Ed Gaedel stepped up to the plate. Before the Tigers could protest, Manager Taylor produced a bona fide contract, and the baffled umpire said, "Play ball." Tiger Pitcher Bob Cain, obviously afraid of hitting the batter with a fast pitch, admitted defeat by giving Gaedel an intentional walk* (Final...
Nehru's proposal to gag the press aroused a storm of protest all over India. At week's end, stepping cautiously, Nehru referred his bill to a select parliamentary committee for action...
...responsibilities and I made my own recommendations and would again. If they disagreed with those of higher authority, the question of the judgment of that higher authority is not within my hands. That is a matter for public opinion ... I do not believe in the gag rule . . . If [a military man] does not perform his duties satisfactorily, he is subject to removal. If an Administration doesn't conduct its processes satisfactorily, every four years we have a referendum...
...William Marcy over conduct of the Mexican War, wrote in one blistering letter: "I do not desire to place myself in the most perilous of all positions: a fire upon my rear, from Washington, and the fire, in front, from the Mexicans." President Polk finally managed to gag Scott, who went on to conquer Mexico City, return a hero, be nominated for President by the Whigs in 1852. He lost to Franklin Pierce. He continued in the service, was Abraham Lincoln's ranking general until he was retired in November 1861, aged...
...latest gag in retailing circles is: "These shortages are so terrible I'll soon have to rent another warehouse to store my goods...