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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...have known about Half Moon Mountain almost since its inception. About a year ago Composer-Pianist Edwin Otto Gerschefski, dean of music at Spartanburg's Converse College, wrote us about his plan. He said he was a weekly reader of TIME with a habit of clipping stories and depositing them in the pocket of his jacket for easy reference. One such story, from the May 26, 1947 issue, had impr es s e d him so much ("I couldn't get it out of my mind") that he wanted permission to set it to music...
...minute conference at the Pentagon. It, too, was fruitless. Five o'clock passed and the strike order still stood. Then Royall and Assistant Attorney General H. Graham Morison hurried off to Federal Judge T. Alan Goldsborough, who had agreed to stand by in his chambers. Just three weeks ago, Judge Goldsborough had slapped fines of $1,420,000 on John L. Lewis and the U.M.W. It took him only a few minutes to issue a temporary order against the brotherhoods. Hours later the word went out to the nation's railroaders to stay on their jobs. The trains...
...best-known of the three was Grand Chief Engineer Johnston who, along with the trainmen's A. F. Whitney, was scornfully denounced by Harry Truman two years ago when the pair tied up the railways. "These two men," the President had rasped-"Mister Whitney and Mister Johnston." Whitney has since forgiven Mr. Truman, and has announced that he will back him for renomination. Johnston is a Republican. He is a plain, blunt man who started his career as a callboy, vaguely resembles John L. Lewis, is publicly crotchety and privately pleasant...
...which the Navy yearned for. Congress was less than likely to pass universal military training, which was down for $400 million. But in the end the total defense appropriations would be around $14 billion, which was even more than the Finletter Commission, in its most anxious moments four months ago, had thought necessary for national defense. There were no bargains, yet, in defense...
...prize was originated this year by the Album Board of 1943 in honor of its chairman, Dana Reed '43. Four years ago Reed was reported missing in action over Northern Italy. While at the College he held posts on the Student Council, CRIMSON, and pre-war Guardian, as well as the Album...