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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Twenty dollars must accompany an application for admission to the Law School, and Erwin N. Griswold, conscientious Dean, will accept no more. He yesterday returned the $1,000,020 admission check at the right to the National Bank of New Jersey as being somewhat too large...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Law Dean Spurns $1,000,020 Check | 3/17/1948 | See Source »

...returned to Washington this week, to find that Democratic bosses had been burning the wires to a worried J. Howard McGrath, chairman of the Democratic National Committee. McGrath hastened to the President. He came out of the conference to announce flatly: "If nominated by the convention [Mr. Truman] will accept...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Little Accident | 3/15/1948 | See Source »

...York City's James A. Farley, who got almost as much applause as the President did at the Jefferson-Jackson Day dinner a fortnight ago (TIME, March I) was asked last week during a radio press interview (Mutuals Meet the Press) if he would accept a Democratic nomination as Vice President. Big Jim promptly boomed the shortest, clearest, most emphatic political statment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Little Accident | 3/15/1948 | See Source »

Last week Vandenberg sent off a last-minute protest. McConnell fired back a flat question: "If you were nominated by the Republican convention, would you accept?" Replied Vandenberg: "I decline to speculate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Spring Stirrings | 3/15/1948 | See Source »

...fogs, caused by the warm winds of the liberal Gulf Stream coming in contact with the Soviet glacier." Wallace is loaded with "ritualistic adjectives" like "forward-looking," "freedom-loving," "clear-thinking." Such lingo, delivered with the "expansiveness of a Messiah," is just what it takes to make his followers accept Wallace "on his own valuation as a lover of peace who is trying to find a way to avoid World...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: What Is Henry Wallace? | 3/15/1948 | See Source »

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