Word: majorities
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...then brought a $300,000 damage suit charging the Giants, the major and minor leagues, and Commissioner Happy Chandler with violating the antitrust laws. His lawyers claimed that he had been denied his livelihood by the reserve clause in his contract with the Giants; the injustice in the clause, they said, was the binding of a player to a club for the entirety of his baseball life. In February, the U.S. Court of Appeals returned the case to a lower court, voting 2 to 1 in favor of Gardella's charge of "peonage...
...Lampoon will become the second major Harvard publication to recognize the 19th Amendment when it opens its tiled palace at 7:30 p.m. tonight to a Radcliffe competition for editorial and business boards...
About the time the major league teams are finishing their spring training and getting ready to head north, Harvard leaves Soldiers Field for a week's visit to sundry southern baseball diamonds. This is the annual spring trip which every year strikes fear into the hearts of Crimson ball players and coaches...
...money, it's darn good food. It's just that you need to take stock now and then, especially after you make a major change in your setup," he says...
...this, his second major novel in two years, John Horne Burns wields an unbated sword of satire and sarcasm in a one-sided duel. With extraordinary dexterity, Burns has severed the suspenders of a certain unnamed New England private school, exposing its tattered foundation of tradition, clique, and petty prejudice. The parallel with this certain school seems to be all too accurate...