Word: setups
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...when you look at the current issue of the McInnis machine that way, you get a pretty good idea of the whole setup. Charlie Walsh has inherited Cliff Crosby's mask and looks very strong. Walsh has a great throwing arm and handles the pitchers well; this is an especially important requirement this year. McInnis counts him as one of his top hitters, a line drive specialist who has developed a lot since he first trotted onto the diamond last spring...
...Choice. Newsmen suspect that most of the troubles stem directly from the Herald's strange ownership setup. Prosperous Odhams Press, a private publishing house which ballyhooed the Herald into big-time circulation in the early '30s, owns 51% of the stock. The Trades Union Congress owns the remaining 49%, but (together with the Labor Party) has absolute control over editorial policy. While papers like the London Times and Telegraph spend money to get news, the Herald thinks mostly of circulation: T.U.C. wants to spread the party message as widely as possible, and Odhams wants to make money. Thus...
...setup is plain to everybody--characters, readers, and author. Clearly Don Antolin cannot resume his position as head of the family. Nor will he be outsmarted by his relatives' greedy efforts to get his modest savings, which he earned as a London waiter. Crooks, brothel keepers, Falange bullies, Communist organizers, father confessors, mediums, and honest workers appear in the proper places doing predictable deeds...
...this requirement is much the same as the theory behind inoculation. Advice, like inoculation, can be very helpful and it cannot do any harm. There are those who insist that groups should be on their own and that advisers corrupt students' independence; but there is nothing under the present setup to prevent a group from ignoring the advice tendered it, and even neglecting to ask advice. All this is left up to the groups themselves...
...know exactly what the setup is here now," Sullivan said, "but we hope to find out and state our own ideas at the meeting. It has been called to unite A.F.L. sympathizers spread throughout the University and lay plans to bring all Harvard workers under the American Federation of Labor banner...