Word: signed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...former second baseman in the Connie Mack "million dollar infield" of two decades ago was outspoken in his criticism of the attitude taken by college toward ball clubs who send players through school and then sign them up. A second peeve was intercollegiate restriction of undergraduates participating in semi-pro games during the summer and "maybe picking up a little spare cash...
During the past year rising indignation by university officials has become apparent because young players are sponsored by professional teams through school, with the understanding that they will sign on the dotted line immediately after graduating. Too often, the irate colleges maintain, the boys are deceitfully betrayed into leaving academic lists before the end of four years...
...block away, their white tires carefully left an inch from the curb. James or William are reading their tabloids and ogling passing maids and nurses. But the streetcar still runs. It rumbles up to the great, grey building, shudders to a violent halt, relaxes with a compressed air sign, and allows passengers to scurry off. Two women, plump, middle-aged, the kind who dress the same for every occasion, every season, every time they go out of the house. A lad whose gaudy suit calls up instant associations with bargain basements. A sour wisp of a woman, ugly and thirty...
State. As the master of a solid bloc of faithful votes. Tom Pendergast has long been the No. 1 Democrat of his State. But in 1932 St. Louis' Bennett Champ Clark went to the Senate without his help and Boss Pendergast has since had to sign a working agreement to claim patronage only in the western half of the State. The truce has lately been strained, to the dis pleasure of Tom Pendergast. First strain came when young Maurice Milligan, whose Brother Jacob was defeated by Pendergast's Harry Truman for the Senate, was appointed U. S. Attorney...
Last week rubber was selling at 10.31? on the New York Commodity Exchange, cheapest price in three years. Yet to appear was any sign of industrial revival sufficient to bounce rubber up again. But the I. R. R. C.'s 1934 agreement on planting bases expires this year. So the I. R. R. C. again met in London last week, this time to establish not only the export quota for the next three months, but a new planting limit. Recognizing the present slump, I. R. R. C. set the quarterly quota at 60%. Optimistic for the long pull, however...