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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Donald S. Vorhees, of Leavenworth, Kans., A. B. University of Kansas '38, Lewis Larned Coburn scholarship; Jackson G. Akin Jr., of Bowling Green, Ky., A. B. Washington and Lee '40, Sidney Thompson Fairchild scholarship; George Manner, of Ithaca, N. Y. A. B. Coirnell '36, Sidney Thompson Fairchild scholarship Victor F. Weiss, of Sheboygan, Wis., Ph. B. University of Wisconsin '40, Sidney Thompson Fairchild scholarship; Jack R. Pearce, of Terre Haute, Ind., A. B. Depauw '40, George Fisher scholarship; David J. Stolzer, of Rochester, N. Y., A. B. University of Rochester '40, Felix Frankfurter scholarship...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SENIORS IN COLLEGES OF NATION GIVEN SCHOLARSHIPS TO LAW SCHOOL | 5/10/1940 | See Source »

...machine, ions, akin to the particles shot forth by radium and other radioactive elements, are revolved around in a vacuum tank between the poles of a huge magnet at the speed of millions of miles an hour...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Scientific Scrapbook | 5/9/1940 | See Source »

...Akin to Hollywood's picture business is the business of retailing. Glossy, high-priced executives move from store to store, accompanied by troops of favorite underlings. Terms like "genius," "snake," "megalomaniac," are indiscriminately applied. Last week, in the gossipy lianas of the trade, the No. 2 U. S. retailer of general merchandise was getting more than his share of epithets. His name: Sewell Lee Avery, chairman of Montgomery Ward...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RETAILING: Mr. Avery's Ex-Men | 5/6/1940 | See Source »

Victor. Nobody believed that the popularity or political acumen of Sam Houston Jones, 42, accounted for the victory. Five months ago Sam Jones was known only as a moderately prosperous Lake Charles attorney. He comes from that stretch of Southwest Louisiana that is more akin to Texas than to the Old South, where the French-speaking Acadian country of the bayous, live-oaks, sugar & rice plantations, shades off into oil and cattle country...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LOUISIANA: Twelve Years (Concluded) | 3/4/1940 | See Source »

...long time; at many a hearing observers were more struck by threshings and heavings under the blankets than by the testimony. Opposed to Chairman Dies were California's Voorhis, New Mexico's Dempsey, Massachusetts Casey. Basically the fight was theoretical-to Martin Dies U. S. liberals were akin to Communists and Fascists in so far as they believed in Marxism and tried to create a "bureaucratic capitalism" that would be for the U. S. what Communism is in Russia, Fascism is in Italy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Anniversary | 1/15/1940 | See Source »

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