Word: gins
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...nation's cotton exchanges last week, it was quiet enough to hear a weevil nibbling a boll. In Manhattan, New Orleans and Chicago, cotton traders stayed home; in Memphis, the cotton exchange's big quotation board was bare, and brokers sat around their Front Street offices playing gin rummy and dominoes. Cotton mills held their goods off the market, refusing to bid even on military contracts until they got at least a faint inkling of the score. In four weeks, the marketing system of the U.S. cotton industry had been slowly paralyzed by the price freeze...
...when the Senators prepared to crown King Clancy with a contempt citation, the thought of rubbing shoulders with all those commoners in a federal prison gave the King pause. One day last week he bought train tickets for himself and his chauffeur (so he would have someone to play gin rummy with) and rushed to Washington to make amends. Seated in the hearing room of Senator Estes Kefauver's crime investigating committee, Sheriff Clancy set out to explain some of the royal problems...
...spite of acid Disappointment, gin-horse...
Last week George appeared before the Kefauver committee in Washington and for an hour and 55 minutes repeated his story coolly, if not enthusiastically. He told how as a patrolman he and his buddies had shaken down nightclubs and gin mills for allowing them to stay open after hours. Now & then, he sprinkled in a big name or two. At one point he recalled hearing that a wealthy oilman named Sinclair (presumably Harry Sinclair of Teapot Dome notoriety) had lost $800,000 in two nights at the Golden Shores gambling club, and had later settled the debt...
Pete's" gin-drinking night life finally finished him in Philadelphia. He was dealt to the Chicago Cubs after the 1917 season, and after a brief stint as a sergeant in the A.E.F. came back to win 123 games for them in seven seasons. But Old Pete and Cub Manager Joe McCarthy were unable to see eye to eye on training regulations, so Alex the Great was sold for the waiver price ($4,000 at the time) to the Cardinals...