Word: switching
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Thornton Cooke, president of Kansas City's Columbia National Bank, awoke on a Pullman in Manhattan's Grand Central Station to find that a switch engine had gone somewhere with the train valet and with his only suit. Banker Cooke ordered an invalid's chair, swaddled himself in Pullman Co. blankets, had himself scooted through the depot to the Hotel Biltmore...
...near midnight-too late for most fans. 2) Every team would have to spend some of the increased revenue from night games in buying new players enough to have two teams-one for days, one for nights. Once they were used to one set of conditions, players could not switch from one team to the other. 3) All old-time managers, opposed to change on principle, dislike the experiment, say it "sounds the knell of baseball." Of the 16 big league managers, only two, Gabby Street, St. Louis "Cards" and Dan Howley, Cincinnati "Reds," are slightly interested...
...King not because they are Liberal at heart (for French-Canadian farmers are as conservative as French peasants), but simply as a rebuke to the Conservatives, hated imposers of conscription. In this year's election, however, many believe that Quebec has worked off her old grudge, will switch to Bachelor Bennett...
...amends Section 335 of the U. S. Criminal Code by defining a "petty offense" as one punishable by not more than six months in jail and a $500 fine (misdemeanors are offenses punishable by imprisonment of one year or less). Under this bill U. S. District attorneys may not switch to a felony charge before a Grand Jury after a defendant has been prosecuted as a "petty" offender...
...discredit of England that her benevolent despotism (with emphasis on the word benevolent) has, except for occasional righteous outbursts, permitted her to fall for the "sales talk" of a few impractical dreamers, and gradually switch the governing of the country from the hands of those who know the futility of altruism to a class whose ideals are motivated by a desire to be rid of an oppressively progressive people...