Word: alberts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...payments, His Majesty's Government announced a plan to terminate its last "perpetual" pension. The amiable, doddering, 88-year-old fourth Earl or his 85-year-old brother Edward will continue to collect while they live. To keep the next heir, Edward's 55-year-old son Albert, from starving, the Government obligingly plans to remove the family entail from Trafalgar House. When and if it is sold, future heirs will retain only an empty earldom, a coat of arms, and the bitter comfort of the Nelson family motto: "Let him wear the palm who has deserved...
...tight-lipped businessman named Albert Houston from Chatham, Ont. had tramped from farm to farm buying used tractors. When he had 69, he slapped on some fresh paint, took them to Yorkton, Sask. In newspapers and on telephone-pole posters he advertised a "Mammoth Auction Sale of Farm Machinery." Not until the day before the auction did Yorkton's 5,577 people know what they were in for. Some 10,000 tractor-hungry farmers, their pockets bulging with cash, arrived from all over the prairies. When all the rooms in Yorkton's three hotels were snapped up, empty...
...most dangerous situation humanity has ever faced in all history," the second part of the book discusses solutions. Dismissing international control of atomic energy as a cure-all, although recognizing its importance in any plan, Leo Szilard sees in world government the only complete security. Neither Albert Einstein's nor Walter Lippmann's chapter succeeds in more than indicating a satisfactory plan for such an organization. But Einstein shows clearly the functions the organization must undertake, while Lippmann sets forth original and cogent evidence that the world is ready to relinquish the concept of national sovereignty. The whole report asserts...
...Donald J. Berets '47 of New York City and Lowell House; Mitchell I. Goodman '45 of Brooklyn, N.Y. and Lowell House; Reuben P. Hersh '47, of Mt Vernon, N.Y. and Adams House; Harold C. Hinton '45; Hugh M. Hyde '44 of Far Hills, N. J.; Richard P. Kleeman '44; Albert J. Marks, Jr. '47 of West Hartford, Conn. and Lowell House; and Peter D. Wyman...
...five new members in Senior standing are: Albert S. Cook, Jr. '47 of New York City and Lowell House; Edward C. Franklin '47, of Forest Hills, N.Y. and Lowell House; John T. Noonan, Jr., of Brookline and Lowell House; James N. Snyder '47 of Akron, Ohio and 19A Forest Street; and Alfred F. Traverse, Jr. '47 of St. Joseph, Michigan and Lowell House...