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In doing so, Greenberg sought to emphasize the fact that Afroasiatic was the only language family that was represented transcontinentally, in both Africa and Asia.
His classification was the standard one for many years ( Greenberg 1955: 3 ).
It was superseded by those of Joseph Greenberg in 1955 and especially in 1963.
Among the investors was Bob Hope, who had grown up in Cleveland, and former Tigers slugger, Hank Greenberg.
Indians executive Hank Greenberg was not happy about the trade and neither was Maris, who said that he could not stand Lane.
Henry Benjamin " Hank " Greenberg ( January 1, 1911 – September 4, 1986 ), nicknamed " Hammerin ' Hank " or " The Hebrew Hammer ," was an American professional baseball player in the 1930s and 1940s.
A first baseman primarily for the Detroit Tigers, Greenberg was one of the premier power hitters of his generation.
Greenberg was a five-time All-Star, was twice named the American League's Most Valuable Player, and was elected to the Hall of Fame in 1956.
Greenberg was sold to the Pittsburgh Pirates in 1947, became the very first baseball player to earn over $ 80, 000 / year in salary ( he was paid $ 100, 000, ($ today ) plus $ 25, 000 that his contract with Detroit called for in the event they sold or traded him ).
Greenberg was the first Jewish superstar in American professional sports.
Hank Greenberg was born Hyman Greenberg on January 1, 1911, in Greenwich Village, New York City to Romanian-born Jewish immigrant parents David and Sarah Greenberg, who owned a successful cloth-shrinking plant in New York.
In seven of the nine years in which he was active, Greenberg was one of the dominant players in the game.
The Detroit press was not so kind regarding the Yom Kippur decision, nor were many fans, but Greenberg in his autobiography recalled that he received a standing ovation from congregants at the Shaarey Zedek synagogue when he arrived.
In 1935 Greenberg led the league in RBIs ( 170 ), total bases ( 389 ), and extra base hits ( 98 ), tied Foxx for the AL title in home runs ( 36 ), was 2nd in the league in doubles ( 46 ), slugging percentage (. 628 ), was 3rd in the league in triples ( 16 ), and in runs scored ( 121 ), 6th in on base percentage (. 411 ) and walks ( 87 ), and was 7th in batting average (. 328 ).
In 1937 Greenberg was voted to the All-Star Team.

Greenberg and however
The Turkic-Mongolic-Tungusic and Korean-Japanese-Ainu groupings were also posited by Joseph Greenberg ( 2000 – 2002 ) who, however, treated them as independent members of a larger family, which he termed Eurasiatic.
He went on, however, to post a 14-1 ( 10 knockouts ) record, reversing the defeat to Greenberg in the process.

Greenberg and stating
Greenberg in turn demanded a $ 10, 000 dollar bonus if he mastered the outfield, stating he was the one taking the risk in learning a new position.
The critic Clement Greenberg, with Jackson Pollock, saw Sobel's work there in 1946, and in his essay " American-Type ' Painting " Greenberg cited those works as the first instance of all-over painting he had seen, stating that " Pollock admitted that these pictures had made an impression on him ".
Indians general manager Hank Greenberg reduced Doby's salary despite Doby stating he would not accept a pay cut.
The Snyders ' complaint alleges, among other things, that the Greenberg attorneys made false statements to the court when applying for a search warrant and that one ( Wadyka ) impersonated a federal officer by flashing a badge and stating that he was with the office of the U. S. Attorney.

Greenberg and I
Rumors that he had bribed the board and concern that he would be likened to Jack Dempsey, who had received negative publicity for failure to serve in World War I, led Greenberg to be reexamined, and he was found fit to serve.
" Greenberg replied, " Don't worry, George, I can see it just fine ," so the game continued.
Allan Greenberg had scorned the design when it was first unveiled, but wrote later to J. Carter Brown: " I am forced to admit that you are right and I was wrong!
* In 2006, Boies, Schiller & Flexner LLP .. negotiated a major settlement with The American International Group on behalf of its client, C. V. Starr, a firm controlled by Maurice R. Greenberg, the former chairman and chief executive of A. I. G.
This is first conveyed during the opening sequence: when Greenberg is quarreling with another actor, he declares, " What you are I wouldn't eat!
" As such, Greenberg stated in an op-ed for the New York Times " I ’ m finished with the Reagan Democrats of Macomb County in suburban Detroit after making a career of spotlighting their middle-class anger and frustrations about race and Democratic politicians.
After hearing them sing " I Met Him on a Sunday ", a song they had written for the show, their classmate Mary Jane Greenberg convinced the reluctant Poquellos to meet with her mother, Florence, the owner of Tiara Records ; After several months of avoiding Greenberg and telling her that they were not interested in singing professionally, they were booked to Tiara.
Tiara Records, along with The Shirelles ' contract, was sold to Decca Records in 1959 for $ 4000 ; Greenberg stayed as the manager, securing performances for the group, including one at the Howard Theatre in Washington D. C. After two singles did poorly, including their first release — with Coley as lead vocalist — of " Dedicated to the One I Love ", a cover of The " 5 " Royales song of the same name, Decca returned them to Greenberg and gave up on them, considering them a one-hit act ; On Greenberg's new label, Scepter Records, they re-released " Dedicated to the One I Love " as a single, which peaked at # 89 ; Wayne Wadhams, David Nathan, and Susan Lindsay in Inside the Hits attribute the low rating to poor distribution.
When disc jockeys across the nation began to play the track from the album in the fall of 1967 and demanded its release as a single, Florence Greenberg, President of Scepter Records, complied and " I Say a Little Prayer " became Warwick's biggest US hit to that point, reaching # 4 on the U. S. and Canadian Charts and # 8 on the R & B Charts.
* J. L. Greenberg and J. R. Goodstein, " Theodore von Kármán and applied mathematics in America ," A century of mathematics in America II ( Providence, R. I., 1989 ), 467-477.
Notable contributors have included Albert Einstein, Albert J. Nock, Franz Boas, Patrick Buchanan, Martin Luther King Jr., Bertrand Russell, Barbara Garson, H. L. Mencken, Gore Vidal, Edward Said, Arthur Danto, Christopher Hitchens, Hunter S. Thompson, Langston Hughes, Ralph Nader, James Baldwin, Kai Bird, Clement Greenberg, Tom Hayden, Daniel Singer, I. F.
Fromm-Reichmann wrote about it in an article for the American Journal of Psychiatry ; Greenberg wrote about it as the Kingdom of Yr in her novel I Never Promised You a Rose Garden.
If I Were An Evil Overlord, a 2007 short story anthology edited by Martin H. Greenberg and Russell Davis, explicitly references the various lists as source material.
I Never Promised You a Rose Garden ( 1964 ) is a semi-autobiographical novel by Joanne Greenberg, written under the pen name of Hannah Green.
* The Future I ( with Martin H. Greenberg and Charles G. Waugh )
I see no reason he should not reach greatness this season ," Greenberg said.
Kudryavtsev's work was continued by Petr N. Kropotkin, Vladimir B. Porfir ' ev, Emmanuil B. Chekaliuk, Vladilen A. Krayushkin, Georgi E. Boyko, Georgi I. Voitov, Grygori N. Dolenko, Iona V. Greenberg, Nikolai S. Beskrovny, and Victor F. Linetsky.
Interviewed by Donald Honig in the 1970s, Cramer told of how he would tease Greenberg: " So anywhere I go and Hank is there, I always say, ' You know, once they walked me to get to Hank Greenberg ' --- and never tell ' em what happened, and then Hank always jumps up and says, ' Hey, tell ' em what happened.

Greenberg and made
Always, in the abortive attacks upon Ruth's record, one man alone -- a Jimmy Foxx ( 58 in 1932 ) or a Hank Greenberg ( 58 in 1938 ) or a Hack Wilson ( 56 in 1930 ) -- made the bid.
To persuade him not to retire, Pittsburgh made Greenberg the first baseball player to earn over $ 80, 000 ($ today ) in a season as pure salary ( though the exact amount is a matter of some dispute ).
A few further changes to the classification were made by Greenberg in an article in 1981.
Although progress has been made since Greenberg established the plausibility of the family, Nilo-Saharan has not actually been demonstrated.
The assertion that the Cubist depiction of space, mass and volume supports ( rather than contradicts ) the flatness of the canvas was made by Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler ( as early as 1920 ,) but it was subject to criticism in the 1950s and 1960s, especially by Clement Greenberg.
Many writers, critics and theorists made assertions about vanguard culture during the formative years of modernism, although the initial definitive statement on the avant-garde was the essay Avant-Garde and Kitsch by New York art critic Clement Greenberg, published in Partisan Review in 1939.
Just one character, Greenberg ( played by Felix Bressart ), an actor in the theatrical company, is made obviously Jewish.
Though his first published essays dealt mainly with literature and theatre, art still held a powerful attraction for Greenberg, so in 1939, he made a sudden name as a visual art writer with possibly his most well-known and oft-quoted essay, " Avant-Garde and Kitsch ", first published in the journal Partisan Review.
Vincent would later contend that Major League Baseball made a huge mistake by not appointing his deputy commissioner Steve Greenberg — the son of the Hall of Famer Hank Greenberg — as the commissioner.
Indians general manager Hank Greenberg said, "... He himself made the suggestion.
However, some of Greenberg's doctors felt that this was not a true delusion but rather something Greenberg had made up on the spot to impress her psychiatrist.
One year later in 1960, Veeck and former Detroit Tigers great Hank Greenberg, his partner with the Indians and White Sox, reportedly made a strong bid for the American League expansion franchise in Los Angeles, California, with Veeck as a minority partner.
Dimmendaal ( 2008 ) notes that mounting grammatical evidence has made the Nilo-Saharan proposal as a whole more sound since Greenberg proposed it in 1963, but that such evidence has not been forthcoming for Songhay, Gumuz, and Koman: very few of the more widespread nominal and verbal morphological markers of Nilo-Saharan are attested in the Coman languages plus Gumuz ... Their genetic status remains debatable, mainly due to lack of more extensive data.
In the U. S, Clement Greenberg first made his name as an art critic with his essay Avant-Garde and Kitsch, first published in the journal Partisan Review in 1939.
Joseph Green ( April 23, 1900 – June 20, 1996 ), born Yoysef Grinberg, a. k. a. Josef Grünberg, Joseph Greenberg and Joseph Greene, a Polish-born Jew who emigrated to the United States in 1924, was an actor in Yiddish theater and one of the few directors of Yiddish language films ; he made four films including A brivele der mamen (" A Letter to Mother ") and Yidl Mitn Fidl (" Yiddle and his Fiddle ") both of which he also wrote.
Later, when Greenberg was pursuing Babe Ruth's single-season home run record, Moriarty kept the final game of the season going until darkness made it impossible to continue.

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