Word: hartnett
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...playing for peanuts, but always playing well. During seven seasons as a Dodger regular he has cheerfully suffered an extraordinary collection of broken bones, beanballs and assorted bruises. He has learned his trade so well that today oldtimers rank him with the best ever, with Bill Dickey and "Gabby" Hartnett, "Mickey" Cochrane and Roger Bresnahan...
Delegate Albin Hartnett, Local 113 (Philadelphia): I read to you from the 1953 convention proceedings of the Congress of Industrial Organizations. In your address, you said: "We are working hard to find ways and means to bring about an increase in the present 75? an-hour minimum to a more realistic level, in keeping with the present-day wage levels. We do not know yet what that level should be. I do know that the C.I.O. platform calls for $1.25. Just as soon as we come up with our findings, the Department of Labor will make recommendations to the President...
...managed to get through grammar school before he quit to work in a paper mill. At 20 he started keeping books for American Tobacco Co., joined Brown & Williamson in 1927 as a comptroller, quickly moved up, in 1941 became vice president for sales. Lewis takes over from Timothy V. Hartnett, 63, who was named the first full-time chairman of the Tobacco Industry Research Committee, a $500,000 foundation set up by the industry to find out how tobacco affects health (TIME...
Hypnotic Criticism. At Colgate University, Hartnett made a passing observation that Senator McCarthy was open to "serious criticism" for "his investigation" of Editor Wechsler of the New York Post (TIME, May 11). "Again the Times seemed to be hypnotized by criticism of [McCarthy], this time to a point where it omitted mention of my topic altogether.". The topic: "Civil Liberties and the Communist Threat...
...episodes, wrote Hartnett, had prompted him to ask the press two questions. First, "Is a newspaper justified . . . in reporting only . . . the remarks of a speaker which happen to coincide with its own editorial positions? In other words, is it reporting what speakers say or only the reflections of its own views ... in what speakers say? Secondly, has not a newspaper some obligation (to the speaker himself) to give a fairly balanced account . . .?" Hartnett was considering a drastic remedy: "I for one am strongly tempted to omit public criticism of Mr. McCarthy in the future, because I do not want...