Word: mordecai
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Mordecai ("Three-fingered") Brown, famed Chicago Cub pitcher of Tinker-to-Evers-to-Chance days, who pitched against "Christy" Mathewson 24 times and beat him 13, won the Republican nomination for state representative in Terre Haute...
...working meetings, soberly and thoughtfully attended to draw up a charter for racial cooperation. The men and women who attended them make up a roster of first-rate Southern leaders. Among them: Mrs. Jessie Daniel Ames, Field Secretary, Commission on Interracial Cooperation; President Rufus E. Clement, Atlanta University; President Mordecai Johnson, Howard University; Editor Ralph McGill, Atlanta Constitution; Bishop Arthur J. Moore, Atlanta; President Frederick D. Patterson, Tuskegee Institute...
...well-entrenched guard. On its general staff were New Deal intellectuals like Milton Katz, just another member of the WPB legal staff, actually Nelson's chief legal adviser; there was Economist Mordecai Ezekiel, Planner Bob Nathan, Statistician Simon Kuznetz, and at least one former businessman, Vice Chairman William L. Batt. Behind the scenes they campaigned and politicked to throw Eberstadt out, put Wilson...
...budget-balancing Wall Street Journal said it hoped U.P.'s informant had heard the President aright. But such henny-penny, Morgenthau economics must have been more than annoying to Professor Alvin Hansen, to Mordecai Ezekiel, to Lauchlin Currie, and to a lot of other braintrusters who are planning to prevent any post-war depression by bigger and better deficits. It may have cheered the National Association of Manufacturers, who have not heard the President promise to balance the budget for a long time, but it must have been a shock to those businessmen who still realize that rapid retirement...
Harvey Anderson's charge that bad management is the real cause of the metals crisis was backed up by no less an expert than Mordecai Ezekiel, economic adviser to the Department of Agriculture, now on leave to WPB to study the steel shortage. Behind closed doors Ezekiel told a subcommittee of the House that faulty allocation of steel, rather than any serious general shortage, forced the Government's sensational decision to cancel its order for 200 sorely needed Liberty ships from Higgins Corp. of New Orleans (TIME, July...