Word: minor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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First they arrested scores of minor profiteers. Then came the crackdown on real big shots. The day China's new currency was announced, all stock exchange transactions were frozen. The day before the announcement, a traders' pool, working on inside information, dumped 30 million shares on the market in what Shanghai papers dubbed "Operation Giant Bear." Promptly arrested as broker for the deal was Tu Vee-pin, son of Tu Yueh-sheng, president of Shanghai's stock exchange and one of the most powerful men in Shanghai. Big merchant hoarders and price riggers were also pulled...
...Whatever minor fluctuations in popularity occurred in the next two months, Roper was convinced that no amount of electioneering would change a decisive number of votes. "Political campaigns," said he, "are largely ritualistic ... All the evidence we have accumulated since 1936 tends to indicate that the man in the lead at the beginning of the campaign is the man who is the winner at the end of it... The winner, it appears, clinches his victory early in the race and before he has uttered a word of campaign oratory...
...bourgeoisie (his father was a minor Czarist official), Zhdanov had spent his life fighting his father's kind. Historians would remember that he had been a leading advocate of the Hitler-Stalin pact, that he had sparked the 1939-40 war against Finland, directed the defense of Leningrad against the German invasion, conducted the ideological purge of writers, artists, musicians, philosophers and scientists, founded the Cominform, and led the attack on Tito. Muscovites, however, were more likely to remember him for his funeral. It was the most pompous display the city had seen since Lenin was laid away...
...fall, most of radio's summer replacements had withered on the. network vines. Those hardy perennials, the big winter shows, were abloom again. Indications were that the jokes, the routines and the voices would be much the same as last season. But there would be some minor changes...
Died. Charles H. ("Uncle Charlie") Graham, 70, president of the San Francisco Seals baseball club, known as "the Connie Mack of the minor leagues"; of pneumonia; in San Francisco. Graham was a highly successful developer of young talent, sold more than $1,000,000 worth to the big leagues (including such greats as "Lefty" Gomez, Paul Waner and the DiMaggios...