Word: minor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...would be Speaker of the Republican House, and as such he had much more responsibility and a lot of work. The Steering Committees of both Houses would meet this week. One of the party's first, minor jobs would be to throw out some 600 Capitol police, messengers, elevator operators, etc., and distribute that patronage among deserving Republicans. Leslie Biffle, Secretary of the Senate, whom even Republicans liked and admired, would be a casualty of the patronage system...
...Foreign Ministers reached agreement on some minor Italian treaty matters (sample: disposition of Italian literary rights in allied territory), but were still at odds on most major ones. The Trieste issue was tabled, in the hope that it would be resolved by a last-minute Yugoslav compromise maneuver...
...went up to see how the shot looked backwards. On one three-quarter-inch putt last week, he went through all the footwork and club-positioning that he used on a ten-footer. After a match, he usually retired to Maniac Hill (the practice range) to work on some minor flaw. Ben Hojan seemed to thrive on tension and hard work...
...Mozart's Requiem Mass in the same candle-lit cathedral which had formerly resounded to Verdi's Requiem and Beethoven's Missa Solemnis. And Lucerne itself, a small town of cobbled streets, hand painted wooden-covered bridges, and a lake on the edge of the alps, is no minor stage setting...
...Minor injuries will preclude contact work this week for a number of Crimson regulars, including Cleo O'Donnell, Walt Coulson, Wally Flynn, Emil Drvaric and Ed Davis, but all are expected to be ready by Saturday. The status of Petrillo and Leo Flynn is less reassuring, however, and their availability against the Bruins will not be known with certainty until later in the week...