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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...strategy committee's acting chairman, Michigan Auto Dealer Arthur E. Summerfield, who tried to win the 1948 presidential nomination for Senator Vandenberg, said that he personally was clear on what the party's position should be: "I think everyone here will agree with me that the difference between the Roosevelt and Truman Administrations is that with Roosevelt we were drifting toward socialism, but with Truman there is no drift-it's a headlong rush . . ." Said Summerfield: "We must be brutally frank." The G.O.P. should "divest itself of 'me-too-ism' and go to the people...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: REPUBLICANS: Not No, No, No | 12/26/1949 | See Source »

Died. Brigadier General Arthur Vincent McDermott, 61, who as wartime head of the nation's biggest draft board (he called it "agony headquarters") put 900,000 New Yorkers into uniform; after long illness; in Manhattan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Dec. 26, 1949 | 12/26/1949 | See Source »

Houghton, when it was built, was described as "the present ultimate in builder's and airconditioner's art." The gift of Arthur A. Houghton, Jr. '29, the Library owes much of its up-to-dateness to the efforts of the director, Professor William A. Jackson. There are ticking devices that look like seismographs to keep tabs on the temperature and humidity, ultra-violet equipment and a comparison microscope for scrutinizing documents, and microfilm scope for scrutinizing documents, and microfilm viewers in the reading room for use with the Library's 1000 microfilms...

Author: By Maxwell E. Foster jr., | Title: CIRCLING THE SQUARE | 12/21/1949 | See Source »

While tonight's meeting was originally scheduled as a discussion, SANNS President, Arthur Deikman '51, predicted last night that the proceedings might become a debate. "Professor Aiken was pleased with the opportunity to discuss Professor Skinner's book publicly," he said...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SANSS Presents Aiken, Skinner on 'Utopias' Tonight | 12/20/1949 | See Source »

...Moment. In Omaha, Judge Arthur C. Thomsen, pondering a traffic damage suit, told the jury, "A careful driver ought reasonably to anticipate some vehicles making viatic use of the road," then added, "I have been waiting two years to get a case where I could use the word 'viatic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Dec. 19, 1949 | 12/19/1949 | See Source »

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