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...Lippy") Durocher, umpire-eating manager of the Brooklyn Dodgers, was charged with felonious assault on a fan who gave Lippy a piece of lip from the stands. Fan John Christian charged that Durocher and a ball-park guard gave him a working-over after Christian had shouted "Bum" and "Crook...
Imperialism without a Sting. Braniff planned his first foreign venture with care. Too many U.S. businessmen, he thought, have gone into foreign companies, exploited them to the last penny of profit, and pulled out. His own plan: to organize a Mexican company, operated by Mexicans, and paying more than lip service to the Mexican economy. For himself he asked for a fair return on his investment, a traffic hookup between his two airlines. This brand of Yankee business easily won Mexican favor, plus route privileges to Tampico, Merida, Vera Cruz...
...Southern newspaper should not do a lot of lip service about equality for Negroes, and then not do anything about it," he emphasizes. "The course of a liberal newspaper is to get first things done first, namely, achieve for them political and economic equality...
...teachers, some were students. Without exception, those who were concerned for the welfare of the masses were anti-Kuomintang. That is not to say that they were Communists, for they were not. But they saw that the Kuomintang's allegiance to the San Min Chu I was mere lip service. From them I learned that the best way to fight the Communists was by basic, radical economic, social and political reform. Here is what you left out of your article, although Teddy White has been hammering away at the idea for a long time...
...Dewey had bridged the gap characteristically, organizing, organizing, organizing. Republican leaders, Senators, Congressmen, committeemen came to Albany in droves, state by state. Newsmen who covered him were bored to tears, but Republicans everywhere, although privately gloomy about his chances, were heartened by the stiffness of his mustached upper lip and cheered by his obvious determination to mobilize all the resources of the resurgent Republican Party...