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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Second Ballot. The jockeying by the front-runners begins. Each will hope to leave the field far behind. Many of the favorite sons will drop out and go to their second choices. Dewey will probably lengthen his lead, to 360-plus. Taft might go to 250-plus. Stassen would slip. Vandenberg will begin to show up ahead of the other favorite sons, probably get up to 100-plus votes...
...Provides." In 1938 the Group took a new name-"Moral Re-Armament." Aims were piously unspecific ("You don't join anything, you don't pay anything, the idea is that you begin living the M.R.A. standards"). But there is nothing vague about the M.R.A. technique. Teams of 50 to 500 Buchmanites, many of them apple-cheeked, athletic Britons, have descended en masse upon communities, distributing literature, staging M.R.A. morality plays and organizing banquets to provide top-drawer local backing (like Los Angeles' George L. Eastman) for M.R.A. speakers...
...largest Commencement procession in University history will begin its march through the Yard shortly after 10 o'clock tomorrow morning, when more than 2250 students in all departments are slated to to receive degrees in the 297th Commencement Exercises...
...clock: Exercises begin. Addresses by honorary degree recipients in the afternoon...
Fuller will compete in the Eastern trials to be held at Albany in two weeks against "Cokey" Wallace, the amateur champ, among others. Winners of this bracket will gain entrance to the finals with champions and runner-ups going to London to compete in the Olympic bouts which begin in the middle of July...