Word: minor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week the 46-year-old former Kentucky governor, former minor-league baseball player, got ready to give up his $10,000-a-year senatorial job. He had been made high commissioner of baseball at $50,000 a year (see SPORT). Baseball had gained a boss of radiant confidence. (Said Happy: "I may be in error, but I'm never in doubt.") The U.S. Senate had lost a minor politician...
...workrooms, telegraph service, reference material-even a volunteer corps of ex-newspapermen ready and anxious to substitute as rewrite men for correspondents bowled over by the bottle. The city was prepared to offer them plenty of entertainment-cocktail parties, ferry and airplane rides, press cards good for squaring minor infractions...
Nevertheless, the Big Power veto is not all-inclusive. On minor matters of procedure, the votes of any seven members are sufficient. In the preliminary stages of serious inquiry, even at the point of deciding whether a given situation "is in fact likely" to endanger peace, a Big-Power member directly involved in an issue cannot vote at all. But the other four Big Powers must concur in any vote to investigate or take even preliminary action. At the all-important point of determining whether a threat actually exists, and from then on to positive action, the Council can make...
...family did not want young Oscar to follow in its footsteps. But while studying law at Columbia he got involved in college dramatics, soon found himself working for Uncle Arthur. After a couple of minor musicomedy tries, Oscar clicked with Wildflower, went on to write-during the 20s - a half dozen of the best-known musicals in Broadway history...
...Welsh coal town, has all sorts of well-intended ingredients, but as drama and as entertainment they come out lumpily, like somewhat heavy dumplings. There are several reasons. Besides the best one-that it wasn't really a very good play to begin with-the others are honorable minor defeats in an uphill battle. But they help explain why the movie, though it may well have a good run too, is less impressive than the play...