Word: powwowed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...just as the Japs attack. One of the she-shipmates is missing in action. Lanny marries the other-an amateur medium who has spirited conversations with the late financier Otto Kahn. They escape through China, sit a spell with Communist Leader Mao Tze-tung, then fly to a Moscow powwow with Joseph Stalin, who says: "You are a well-informed man, Mr. Budd, and good company. The next time you come this way, I hope you won't fail to let me know...
This turnabout at Chicago's off-season powwow followed hard upon the minor leagues' meeting at Columbus, Ohio where Happy had been kicked around. The minors voted to strip him of his veto power over their legislation, action that would have left him crippled. The majors voted down this proposal, also scrapped a project of the minors to cut from the Commissioner's job control of the recently established $50,000 baseball promotional fund. The result: Happy was happy again. Said he: "I'm . . . not bloodied...
...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's major-league powwow; but he plainly intended that his P.C.L. would be heard from again...
...Regina, where it held its first convention in 1933, the Socialist Co-operative Commonwealth Federation last week held a political powwow with a new purpose. C.C.F.'s aim, in what may be the party's decisive year: to get its leaders talking the same language all across Canada...
Last week a U.S. citizen clippered home from a four-weeks' London powwow with Rank bigshots, full of plans for a British blitz on Hollywood. The man: Manhattan's suave, swart lawyer Morris Ernst. New Dealish Ernst-who was also in Britain to carry out an esoteric "cultural" U.S.-British mission-had persuaded his clients that, to win over the U.S. market, British films must be distributed by the Big Five U.S. producers...