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...13th Year. The Right Rev. Angus Dun, Episcopal Bishop of Washington, prayed: Almighty God, for the sake of this people, and of all peoples, lift those who bear authority among us above the claims of class. . . . Make them in truth the resolute servants of the common good. Neat, grey Harry Truman, onetime Senator from Missouri, stepped forward and took the oath as Vice President...
Ever since the Ralph Smith Farms of Chillicothe, Mo. bought an Aberdeen-Angus bull for a record $40,000 last March, the American Hereford Association had hoped for high-priced bidding on Herefords at Denver. But few would have bet that such a fabulous price could be topped, even in a boom year...
...writes a controversial novel (Strange Fruit) about the South. (What happens: "I was told I would lose my friends, that my family would be injured. . . . We're all well and happy." Friends showed "wonderful loyalty.") The Journal paid Miss Smith $100 for the article, the princeliest sum Editor Angus Perkerson has forked out in 32 years. Editor Perkerson hopes that in the new, freer-spending era his old nickname will be forgotten: because of his reluctance to spend the paper's money, he has long been called "Anguish...
That night, from Hyde Park, he closed his campaign with a prayer written for him by the Rt. Rev. Angus Dun, Episcopal bishop of Washington, D.C. "Almighty God ... we commend to Thy overruling Providence the men and women of our forces. ... Be Thou their strength. . . . Guide . . . the nations of the world into the way of justice and truth and establish among them that peace which is the reward of righteousness. . . . Make the whole people of this land equal to our high trust, reverent in the use of freedom, just in the exercise of power, generous in the protection of weakness...
Navy Minister Angus Lewis Macdonald, a lean Maritimer, slumped in his leather chair and studied the ceiling in Ottawa's press gallery. Then he sprang the news: back in 1941 the Dominion Government had committed itself to a Navy of at least 9,000 men after the war. Minister Macdonald himself thought a force of 15,000 would be "more likely ... [to] satisfy Canadians," hoped the nation would keep two cruisers, two carriers and eight destroyers in postwar fighting trim, with lesser craft to match...