Word: minors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Texas' shaggy-maned Tom Connally, minor statesman, had a painful afternoon. As chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee, it was his job to get Senate confirmation for four Presidential appointments to the State Department: Under Secretary Joseph C. Grew, Assistant Secretaries Will Clayton, Nelson Rockefeller and Archibald MacLeish. It should have been a routine matter, but the pesky Senate suddenly balked, stubbornly insisted on mulling the whole thing over...
...Army still had enough ammunition to last until spring-or maybe "six months from now." There might be minor shortages in specific spots from lack of transport. But this is not surprising, considering the fact that U.S. soldiers are firing, every minute of every day, more than two tons of steel at the Germans. There would certainly be rationing of ammunition, as there has always been in every war. Any artillery or infantry commands which did not ration their fire would be guilty of a tactical error...
...West Coast case at the annual minor-league meeting, Clarence ("Pants") Rowland, bellicose Pacific Coast League president, last week shuffled off to Buffalo. There he won support on two main issues: 1) henceforth the Pacific Coast and other AA leagues should get $10,000 (a compromise figure) instead of $7,500 when one of their players is drafted by a major-league club; 2) if & when the major leagues invade minor-league territory, the incumbent minor-league owners should get first crack at the major franchise. Not even energetic Pants Rowland expected the resolutions to be approved at this week...
...play sometimes stutters, it is nevertheless humorous, touching and life-like at other times-thanks, in part, to some of the well-played minor characters, who are like blobs of fiery Latin color, relieving the sober grey of Fredric March's honest portrayal of Joppolo...
...Similarly," he commented, "jet-propulsion will not affect the airplane in its present civil uses. Due to jet-propulsion's excessive use of fuel, it will have only minor supplementary uses for special purposes...