Word: alan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...David Robertson and the switchmen's A. J. Glover, to a last-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...
Williams College President James Phinney Baxter will join with President Conant in discussing "The Scholar's Contribution in a Free Society" at the Friday afternoon session of the convention. Along with the two educators, Alan Greff of the Rockefeller Foundation and industrialists Oliver E. Buckley and General Brehon B. Somervell form the rest of the panel...
Labor's biggest whale was reduced to herring size last week. In a brief climax to a long legal fight, John Lewis floated once again into a Washington courtroom, sniffed contemptuously at newsmen, stood up and glared when Federal Judge T. Alan Goldsborough came in, then plumped himself down to hear his fate...
...Alan Gregg of the Rockefeller Foundation stuck a probe into the powerful specialty boards,* which certify doctors as specialists in the 15 recognized fields. The inbred, backward-looking boards, he said, give examinations that try to find out whether a candidate knows what the examiners know, not what the candidate himself knows; they stifle medical progress by "withholding approval of the new by insistent emphasis on expert knowledge of the old"; they become "partners of static and reactionary, albeit powerful and respectable, inertia or ignorance." Dr. Gregg's suggestion: pick specialists by their competence in practice...
Saigon (Paramount), where Alan Ladd turns up with Veronica Lake after his fatiguing operations in China and Calcutta, concerns a lot of Amerasian hugger-mugger over a stray $500,000. During the film, at least three well-paid players die for the purpose of bringing Alan and Veronica together. It seems a shocking waste of life until, doubtless referring to all the money Saigon is sure to make at the box office, Paramount has Veronica explain: "All this happened because it had to happen...