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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...loyalty to the Administration. The Senate was heading in two directions at once-one committee was investigating the cause of high prices and another the cause of falling prices. Meanwhile, except for a few aching spots here & there, the patient seemed to be generally enjoying the situation. Prices were lower than they had been for months, and a man with a job could buy a steak again, and an egg for his beer if he liked it that...
...Practically everybody I know is a 'liberal.' At least that's what they call themselves," a reader in Bethel, Conn, wrote last week to the New York Herald Tribune. "What is a liberal? A man who wants . . . higher taxes and more schools or lower taxes and more business, more government or less government? . . . I'm confused." The Trib, which cherishes its liberalism as much as its Republicanism, passed the question to its readers. Over a hundred definitions poured in, and a few shed a little light on one of the most overworked words in the modern...
...Purpose: to prevent a few rich clubs from hiring all the talent-as they well might if each ballplayer were always free to sell his services in the highest market. Cornerstone or not, two out of three judges decided that the reserve clause looked like peonage. They ordered the lower court to look into the Gardella case, which had been tossed out of court on its first time...
...Supreme Court had ruled that baseball was not engaged in interstate commerce, and therefore was out of the reach of antitrust laws. But now baseball was raking in big money from radio and television. Did that make the game interstate commerce? The appeals court wanted the lower court to settle that...
Bank Teller Robert Gibson, an ex-B-29 pilot, was at the lower end of the snorkel, twelve feet down in a cashier's cage beneath the sidewalk. By means of a periscope and a loudspeaker running up through the steel box, he could see and talk with customers at the curb. They could also see him in a periscope mirror in the box and talk back. By dropping their bank books and deposits into an electric dumbwaiter, customers could do their banking in one minute without leaving their cars...