Word: minority
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...then brought a $300,000 damage suit charging the Giants, the major and minor leagues, and Commissioner Happy Chandler with violating the antitrust laws. His lawyers claimed that he had been denied his livelihood by the reserve clause in his contract with the Giants; the injustice in the clause, they said, was the binding of a player to a club for the entirety of his baseball life. In February, the U.S. Court of Appeals returned the case to a lower court, voting 2 to 1 in favor of Gardella's charge of "peonage...
...members of the $5000 to $100,000 income brackets can hardly be called peons. In recent years, however, the national sport has received more and more of its income from radio and television. As such, it has now come within the jurisdiction of the interstate commerce laws. And the minor league wages still remain low; Chandler's statement obviously did not include minor leaguers whose paychecks range down to $1200 yearly. Beyond that, there is a good legal point; does a high wage scale excuse virtual slavery...
...that the student body has almost forgotten its demand for a survey of College food, and lapsed back into appreciation of the perceptible, if minor, improvement in the quality of dining hall food since the recent furor, the Administration has come up with a survey. This is a Good Thing, and about time...
Ford predicted that future cuts in list prices will have to come from minor production short-cuts and further drops in the material index, but not from major model changes...
This is an appropriate place to heap superlatives on G. Wallace Woodworth. There is probably no more challenging work in all musical literature than the B Minor Mass, and enormous ambition and perseverance are required to undertake it at all. In addition, Woodworth's philosophy of Bach is almost the antithesis of Koussevitzky's yet he trained the Chorus to respond with complete accuracy to the Conductor's direction. This achievement is even more remarkable when you realize that Woodworth had to substitute for Koussevitzky in the only complete rehearsal with the Orchestra...