Word: making
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Says White: "We're trying to prepare them to become good musical citizens in a community-the kind that can give lessons to Junior, play a concert at the Elks or Kiwanis, organize a group to put on an operetta, make a good living and contribute something to the community...
Where the average big league club had taken a few score ballplayers to camp this month, Rickey had assembled more than 200-from Dodger Captain Pee Wee Reese down to raw bushers* trying to make the grade in the Dodger farm system at such places as Mobile, Ala., Ponca City, Okla. and Cairo, Ill. It took organization to keep that many players throwing, batting and listening to the oldtimers. Rickey had it all worked...
Some 2,000 of Houston's wealthy and others forked over $42 a head to eat imported pate de foie gras in the Shamrock's Emerald Room, rub elbows with the notables, and tour the hotel which McCarthy had built in an effort to make Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria look like a lodging house...
...Shamrock was the kind of sweeping, lavish gesture that Texans love -and that 41-year-old Glenn McCarthy loved to make...
When hotelmen warned him that he could not make money on such a hotel in these days of high operating costs and falling revenues, McCarthy snapped: "I went into the oil business in 1933 when everybody said I was a damn fool. Now they're saying it again about my hotel...