Word: shadower
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...season a shadow named Danny Gardella had hung over organized baseball. Danny, a New York Giant outfielder of mediocre talents, who had beetled off to join the ill-fated Mexican League in 1946, was suing baseball for $300,000-and challenging the whole system of "reserve clause" contracts which can bind a ballplayer to one club for his entire career (TIME, Feb. 21). Fortnight ago, while the World Series was going full blast, organized baseball quietly talked Danny into dropping his suit...
There was no formal evidence that baseball was making any fundamental change in the form of its contracts, which Danny had characterized as "slavery" and a violation of the antitrust laws. Commissioner Albert B. ("Happy") Chandler seemed satisfied that the shadow had lifted for the time being. "I'm so happy about it," said Chandler, "I'd go out and get drunk, if I were a drinking...
Freedom's Onions. Americans' "coarse familiarity, untempered by any shadow of respect," Mrs. Trollope decided, might serve as an object lesson to all Europeans who prated about republican "democracy" from a safe distance. "The theory of equality may be very daintily discussed by English gentlemen in a London dining room, when the servant, having placed a fresh bottle of cool wine on the table, respectfully shuts the door, and leaves them to their walnuts and their wisdom; but it will be found less palatable when it presents itself in the shape of a hard, greasy...
...delegates recessed, a buzz of dismay filled the halls. Most disquieting was the shadow that had fallen over the supposedly generous Occupation Statute. Was the new German government going to be only a puppet, as the Reds charged...
...Shadow Play. In Detroit, the motorist who got a parking ticket without the blanks filled in paid his fine by mail with an unsigned $2 check...