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...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The West Coast Case | 12/18/1944 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada at War: THE DOMINION,THE JUDICIARY: 80 With a Purpose | 1/10/1944 | See Source »

...Salt Lake City's Newhouse Hotel, G.O.P. national, state and county committeemen from eleven western states met for a two-day "Save America" powwow. Most committeemen were content to grouse about the liquor shortage, while their political optimism ran high. They listened to optimistic speeches, passed routine anti-New Deal resolutions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pre-Convention Minuet | 12/20/1943 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN TRADE: Cinemonopoly | 12/20/1943 | See Source »

...outside the powwow knows its exact agenda or how it is progressing. But U.S. educational circles felt sure that the discussion revolved around the hopeful principles adopted last month by a major meeting of U.S. and foreign educators at Harpers Ferry, W. Va. Findings at the Ferry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: The U. S. Sits In | 10/11/1943 | See Source »

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