Word: kuhn
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...explicit purpose of clearing out the gamblers. Without any process at all, Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis expelled everyone involved in the Black Sox scandal. His '40s successor, Happy Chandler, gave Brooklyn Dodgers manager Durocher a year's suspension merely for associating with gamblers. In the '60s Bowie Kuhn docked Detroit Tigers pitcher McLain a half-season for making book...
...questionable wisdom" of bestowing absolute authority on a single person was brought up in passing by U.S. district court Judge Frank McGarr in 1977. But he used that phrase in the process of rejecting a complaint by Oakland A's owner Charlie Finley that Kuhn was wrecking him financially by arbitrarily keeping him from liquidating his team a player at a time. Judge McGarr ruled, "So broad and unfettered was the commissioner's discretion intended to be that the owners provided no right of appeal, and even took the extreme step of foreclosing their own access to the courts...
...people at a local casting agency liked Phillips enough to put him and roommate Dave Kuhn--the football player--into a Miller Genuine Draft commercial that should come out in the next few weeks...
...addition, says management professor James W. Kuhn '50 of the Columbia Graduate School of Business, Harvard cases concentrate inordinately on the ethical failings of individual business executives rather than problems inherent in the business world itself...
Ueberroth's predecessor, Bowie Kuhn, banished Detroit pitcher Denny McLain for half a year in 1970 for financing a betting shop. In 1979 and in 1983 Kuhn politely ordered casino glad-handers Willie Mays and Mickey Mantle to stay away from baseball until they quit playing golf with gamblers. To much applause, Ueberroth rescinded that ban four years ago. In the last week of his tenure (Giamatti takes office April 1), the Rose affair may make him wonder if that was such a great signal...