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...first time since the founding of the college in 1766, Dartmouth seniors will take part in a February graduation. Four hundred members will sit at a class banquet in Thayer Hall as part of simplified commencement exercises under an accelerated program...
...Farley, whose 1940 break with the President is now final and irretrievable, was not riding trains out of love for travel or banquet chicken. In Omaha he conferred with practically every important Nebraska Democrat; at a political dinner he got in a sharp dig at appointment of Republicans to war agency jobs (a sore spot with many a Democratic veteran). In St. Louis he talked to ex-Mayor Bernard F. Dickmann and sidekick Robert Hannegan, whose local machine used to be one of the slickest in the party...
...away from the Stevens. Army guests live up to eight in a room, according to barracks regulations requiring 60 sq. ft. of floor space and 720 cu. ft. of air space per man. Army cots go into the rooms, Army chow lines with scrubbed tables replace silver & linen in banquet halls. All the Army wants is the bare walls-sometimes the hard-to-get big kitchen utensils...
...great warmer of the lukewarm Sino-Allied relations -if he had brought with him enough assurances of material help. Just what he had brought was a military secret. But in Chungking, as in Moscow, Wendell Willkie loudly called for greater United Nations action. At the Gissimo's banquet he said...
Since April, George Christopher has been Packard's president. On May 2 he startled all Detroit, broke the last chunks of labor-management ice with a joint banquet for 800 company officials, union leaders and Army-Navy brass hats. Since then it has been easy. Packard employes wear little "Work to Win" badges,* paste windshield stickers on their cars. In the rambling Packard plants, huge 15-ft. red, white & blue billboards blazon new worker-composed slogans each week, twin scoreboards tally each department's efficiency and production. At plant entrances toy soldiers march across miniature battlefields to show...