Word: minor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Tennessee, Boss Ed Crump of Memphis likewise was hoping for a medical discharge for an old-line Crumpet, Captain Andrew T. ("Tip") Taylor Jr., 32, wounded in the foot in Italy. Tip Taylor, who has held Crump-given jobs as legislator, judge, minor state officeholder, but is a political unknown, was regarded as likely to be Crumped up for Governor...
...years, Convict Buchalter had become politically significant. A minor desperado had grown into the first tangible issue between potential 1944 Presidential Candidates Tom Dewey and Franklin Roosevelt...
...nominate the Conqueror of Conquerors, the fiend INFLATION, who lights his cigaret with a greenback, who sits upon the back of Victory, who spurns Justice and Security beneath his feet, and who is served by minor devils Want, Crime and Destruction. Peering over his shoulder show his lieutenant, John L. Lewis. Let Artzybasheff draw...
...Reason. Kicking Owner Cox out of baseball was the most drastic step aging (77) Kenesaw Mountain Landis had had to take in his 23 years as autocrat of baseball. He declared Cox "permanently ineligible" to hold any office in the major or minor leagues. The lank-haired, obtrusively autocratic old Federal Judge had been put in his job to squash just that kind of thing. Gambling had nearly ruined baseball when the Chicago White ("Black") Sox threw the 1919 World Series for gamblers' bribes: it was a jarring blow to the public's confidence in baseball...
...McMahon had not resigned, but President Hugh O'Donnell had accepted his resignation. Major reason (according to Father O'Donnell): Notre Dame was being identified with individual, controversial pronouncements. Major reason (according to McMahon): He had "called Franco a Fascist," had declared that Communism has been a minor menace compared to Fascism...