The Committee's purpose was to conduct inquiries, oversee the operation of the League's health work, and prepare work to be presented to the Council.

In another section of the Black Dossier entitled " The Sincerest Form of Flattery " it is mentioned that Carnacki " had encounters with some form of spirit that allowed him brief, fragmentary visions of the future " regarding an attempt to derail the coronation of King George V. Due to ill health following his visions of World War I, Carnacki did not participate in the League's battle with Les Hommes Mysterieux, and had by 1937 retired from active duty.

The Mukden Incident, also known as the " Manchurian Incident " or the " Far Eastern Crisis ", was one of the League's major setbacks and acted as the catalyst for Japan's withdrawal from the organization.

Since 1958, WRL has awarded almost annually the War Resisters League Peace Award to a person or organization whose work represents the League's radical nonviolent program of action.

In his first full season the next year, when he hit 31 home runs with a. 918 OPS, Salmon was named the American League's Rookie of the Year for and quickly became a favorite of the Angels ' organization and a household name among the team's fans.

This development led to them being referred to by some of the league's pundits as " America's Team ", a not-unironic comparison to what was then the National Football League's premier organization, the Dallas Cowboys.

He signed with the Cardinals organization as an amateur free agent in 1942, and was named the Triple-A International League's Most Valuable Player in 1943 before enlisting in the Army later that year.

The Astronomical League is an alliance organization of the Meade 4M Community who supports the League's National Young Astronomer's Award and the Leslie C. Peltier Award.

The color line in American baseball excluded players of black African descent from Major League Baseball and affiliated minor leagues, until Jackie Robinson signed with the Brooklyn Dodgers organization for the 1946 season and in 1947, both Robinson in the National League and Larry Doby with the American League's Cleveland Indians appeared in games for the first time in MLB history.

Politicians would call upon the League's extra-political organization to perform research, and recommend policy.

He would be named the Southern League's Most Outstanding Pitcher that season and was the winning pitcher in the Futures Game, then rated as the No. 8 prospect in the White Sox organization.

After taking what he needed to build it from Cadmus and learning the League had figured out his link to the organization, Luthor attempted to destroy the organization by hacking into an immense laser built into the League's Watchtower.

" In an issue of the Catholic League's monthly newspaper Catalyst, the organization wrote " The Fox animated TV show, " The Simpsons ," is loved by millions for its engaging characters.

Murray was drafted 96th overall by the Calgary Flames in the 1993 NHL Entry Draft from the Western Hockey League's Brandon Wheat Kings and joined the Flames organization in 1995.

Since 1958, the " War Resisters League ", the pacifist group founded in 1923, has awarded almost annually its War Resisters League Peace Award to a person or organization whose work represents the League's radical nonviolent program of Gandhian action.

The JUI formed when members broke from the Jamiat Ulema-e-Hind in 1945 after that organization backed the Indian National Congress against the Muslim League's lobby for a separate Pakistan.

His batting average improved to. 259 in with the Florida State League's St. Petersburg Cardinals, but his. 915 fielding percentage and 47 errors was far worse than the organization that employed Ozzie Smith at short was used to.

President Woodrow Wilson had been a driving force behind the League's formation and strongly influenced the form it took, but the US Senate voted not to join on 19 November 1919.

The League's collective security system required nations to act, if necessary, against states they considered friendly, and in a way that might endanger their national interests, to support states for which they had no normal affinity.

This session concerned itself with liquidating the League: assets worth approximately US $ 22, 000, 000 in 1946, including the Palace of Peace and the League's archives, were given to the UN, reserve funds were returned to the nations that had supplied them, and the debts of the League were settled.

The Muslim League and Socialist Party had gained momentum since Muslim League's defeat in 1954 elections and Socialist Party had been challenging for the constituencies of Republican Party, President Iskandar Mirza's party.

What had been the Empire's most loyal dominion became a dissenter as it opposed efforts the first and second British Labour governments to trust the League's framework of arbitration and collective security agreements.

Patel's decisiveness on the partition of Punjab and Bengal had won him many supporters and admirers amongst the Indian public, which had tired of the League's tactics, but he was criticised by Gandhi, Nehru, secular Muslims and socialists for a perceived eagerness to do so.

( Four years earlier, in 1966, the National League's Milwaukee Braves had moved to Atlanta.

) For over 20 years, the State Parks had tried to kick out Malibu Little League's baseball diamonds and tall baseball fences, with the intention of returning the land to its native wetlands and vegetation.

) Plaque located in Sheffield Hallam University commemorating The Human League's first live concertWith their reliance on technology and tape machines, the band had been nervous about playing live.

What is known is that IRB involvement in the League's sister organisation, the Home Rule Confederation of Great Britain, led to the moderate Butt's ousting from its presidency ( even though he had founded the organisation ) and the election of Parnell in his place on 28 August 1877.

In an article in the July 1952 issue of SPORT, Speaker recounted how Bill Veeck hired him to be a coaching consultant to Larry Doby, who in 1947 had become the American League's first black player and just the second player to cross the baseball color barrier in Major League Baseball.

In 1927, the Daily Mail reported that Norris had made under-the-counter payments to Sunderland's Charlie Buchan as an incentive for him to join Arsenal in 1925 ; this was in an era of the League's maximum wage, and any additional financial incentives to players were strictly outlawed, although many clubs at the time broke the rules.

San Francisco had long been home to the Pacific Coast League's San Francisco Seals, the top farm team of the Boston Red Sox.

Koch consistently demonstrated a fierce love for New York City, which some observers felt he carried to extremes on occasion: In 1984 he had gone on record as opposing the creation of a second telephone area code for the city, claiming that this would divide the city's population ; and when the National Football League's New York Giants won Super Bowl XXI in January 1987, he refused to grant a permit for the team to hold their traditional victory parade in the city, quipping famously, " If they want a parade, let them parade in front of the oil drums in Moonachie " ( the latter being a town in New Jersey adjacent to East Rutherford, site of the Meadowlands Sports Complex, where the Giants play their home games ).

He had talks with the National Hockey League's ( NHL ) Calgary Flames, who indicated at the time they were not interested in the team.

In 1991, at the conclusion of the regular season schedule 58, 862, 660 people had attended CFL games since the League's first game was played on Thursday, August 14, 1958, at Winnipeg.

The American League's Philadelphia Athletics had moved to Kansas City, Missouri after the 1954 season, and Philadelphians weren't about to lose another professional sports franchise.

However, because isolationist sentiment was strong and some of the articles in the League's charter conflicted with the United States Constitution, the United States never did ratify the Treaty of Versailles nor join the League of Nations, which President Wilson had helped create, to further peace through diplomacy rather than war and conditions which can breed it.

As a rookie for the American Football League's Buffalo Bills in 1960, DuBenion had seven touchdowns and 752 receiving yards on 42 catches, a 17. 9 yd / catch average.

The Gaglardis had two sons: Bob Gaglardi, founder of Northland Properties ( whose holdings include the 35-hotel Sandman Hotel chain and 100-plus restaurants under various labels ) and grandson Tom Gaglardi who is the owner of the National Hockey League's Dallas Stars, and BIll, a Calgary businessman.

It was brought to the attention of the Workers ' League's Central Committee that Fields ' uncle had worked for the CIA's computer division, and it criticized the fact that neither Fields nor Wohlforth had revealed that to the League.

Manager Whitey Herzog replaced McKeon in 1975, and the Royals quickly became the dominant franchise in the American League's Western Division, winning three straight division championships from 1976 to 1978.

They were originally slated to begin play in 1971, but Symington would not accept the prospect of having Kansas City wait three years for another team and pressured MLB to have the Royals and their expansion brethren ( the Pilots and the National League's San Diego Padres and Montreal Expos ) ready for play in 1969.

In 1994, Hird won the first of three consecutive best and fairests, culminating in his 1996 season, where he was jointly awarded the Brownlow Medal for the League's fairest and best player with Brisbane Bears midfielder Michael Voss.

The club is one of only three teams that competed in all Brazilian National League's first division championships since its inception in 1971.

As it turned out, only three of those cities gained Major League Baseball franchises in the immediate aftermath of the Continental League's demise ( Houston, Minneapolis-St. Paul and New York ).

Plymouth Township is home to the Ontario Hockey League's Plymouth Whalers, one of three American teams in the OHL and one of two in Michigan.

He also compiled 475 home runs during his career, was named the National League's ( NL ) Most Valuable Player ( MVP ) three times, and won three World Series championship titles.

In 2003, Prior finished third in the National League's Cy Young Award voting after compiling an 18 – 6 win-loss record despite missing three starts after an on-field collision with Atlanta Braves second baseman Marcus Giles.

The League suffered a further blow to its prestige in 1995 when the Football Association limited the entry to the FA Trophy to the first three steps of the pyramid thereby disqualifying the Northern League's clubs and those in equivalent competitions from competing for the FA Trophy.

With considerable boost from MTV airplay during July 1982 The Human League's " Don't You Want Me " had a three week reign on top of the Billboard 100 chart, described by the Village Voice as the moment the Second British Invasion kicked off, they were followed by bands like Duran Duran whose glossy video's would come to symbolise the power of MTV.

They and the Baltimore / Chesapeake Bayhawks are only teams to date that has won three Steinfield Cups in the League's history.

Graham Taylor is the only manager to have twice led teams that amassed over 70 points in one Football League season under the League's original scoring system of two points for a win and one point for a draw which was introduced for the inaugural 1888 – 89 season and was retained for over 90 years until the reward for a win was increased to three points in 1981.

The Admirals were one of three new teams, the others being the Scottish Claymores based in Edinburgh and the Rhein Fire based in Düsseldorf, Germany, to join the old World League's European Division teams: the Barcelona Dragons, the Frankfurt Galaxy, and the London Monarchs.

A multi-millionaire, Bassett gave the league instant credibility by signing three stars from the National Football League's Miami Dolphins for the 1975 season: running backs Larry Csonka and Jim Kiick, and wide receiver Paul Warfield.

Kelly was a player-manager three times in his career – in 1887 for the Beaneaters, in 1890 leading the Boston Reds to the pennant in the only season of the Players ' League's existence, and in 1891 for the Cincinnati Kelly's Killers-before his retirement in 1893.

The National Football League's Green Bay Packers played two or three home games per year at Milwaukee County Stadium from 1953 to 1994, after using Wisconsin State Fair Park in nearby West Allis and also Marquette Stadium.

* 21 February 2006 — A Football League under-21 team, composed of players from the Football League's three divisions, beats a Lega Nazionale Professionisti under-21 team, composed of players from Serie B, 1 – 0 at the KC Stadium.

According to Sire Raoul, a chronicler from Milan, 900 knights came from Milan and around 550 knights from three other towns, the rest of the League's forces were foot soldiers.

It was also the first time three Portuguese clubs reached the Europa League's semi-finals simultaneously.

He took a hundred wickets in a season three times, a feat that has only been achieved on two other occasions in the Bradford League's history.

Smyl also played three games for the Central Hockey League's Dallas Black Hawks during the campaign.

McLaughlin replaced them with Mick Byrne and Noel Larkin and the pairing proved successful as the club proceeded to win a further three League titles and three FAI Cups, with Byrne finishing the final season of the Four in a Row period as the League's top goalscorer.