Word: 80th
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WASHINGTON--Four prominent Negro spokesmen demanded tonight that the 80th Congress refuse to seat Sen. Theodore G. Bilbo, D., Miss., in January because of his acknowledged membership in the Ku Klux Klan and his efforts to block Negro suffrage in the South...
...prophetic mood Episcopal Bishop William T. Manning last week made his farewell address to the annual convention of his New York diocese. He had just reached 1) his 80th birthday, 2) his 25th anniversary as bishop-a post from which he will retire in December (TIME, April 8). Manning, a leader of the Anglo-Catholic party in his Church, stirringly reasserted his own and long-held conviction that the Episcopal Church can "serve as a 'bridge church' and as a reconciling influence between Catholicism and Protestantism...
Henry Morgenthau Sr., veteran financier and diplomat (Ambassador to Turkey, 1913-16), made his annual birthday prediction: "Billions in unused resources are going to start us off on a real era of prosperity" at war's end. On his 80th birthday, nine years ago, he predicted that his son, Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau Jr., would balance the budget...
Individual reports, and with each report a memorandum explaining how scores are to be interpreted, will be in the mall in a few days, said Dean Dyer, The memorandum confirms a previously-published report that the Harvard group attained score averages placing it between the 75th and 80th percentiles...
Preliminary computations of the four United States Armed Forces Institute examinations given here the week of November 27 have revealed that the Harvard group attained score averages placing it between the 75th and 80th percentiles...