Word: awarded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...working like a pump handle as he announced decisions. Soon he was promoted to Under Secretary. Judicial Bob Patterson's plodding, plugging methods have led him down many a blind alley. But they have also knocked over blank walls. He won permission for field ordnance officers to award orders up to $500.000 without approval from Washington, finally got the figure to $5,000,000, now has cut by two-thirds the time it took the Army to sign contracts. He was pounding his desk over Army waste of strategic materials long before most men in Washington even knew this...
With a perfect batting average-three hits in three pictures and an Academy Award nomination thrown in-Teresa quietly pursues her private life on her new husband's walnut-treed, swimming-pooled, press-agent-free acres in San Fernando Valley. If Sam Goldwyn is right, this tranquil double life will not last. Says he earnestly and grammatically, apropos her role in Pride of the Yankees: "She doesn't need much ballyhoo. Far better the public should discover her. They will. She's got it inside, things you can't learn...
...award of 46 Harvard Business School Scholarships, totalling $23,250, has been announced by the University. The scholarships, which are effective during the present academic year, were awarded to the following students...
Five years ago Washington correspondents voted that Clapper (who had then barely started syndication for Scripps-Howard) was the "most significant, fair and reliable" columnist. Today a majority of his fellows would still probably give Clapper the same award. The quality which wins him such tribute from his colleagues is his plainness, as man and writer, in articulating a plain man's concept of democratic government...
Broadwater Wins Composition Award...