Word: begun
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...many a Californian took to mean that he was wild to be governor and hoped to use the office as a springboard for the presidency, was just what was needed to get California politics tuned to its standard note of discord. It re-opened a party quarrel which had begun when Jimmy tried to scuttle Truman for Eisenhower. It also emphasized the rift between Jimmy and E. George Luckey, who as a faithful Trumanite had replaced Jimmy as leader of the state's Democrats...
...which they do not yet understand. One day last week, Emperor Hirohito celebrated his 48th birthday. Between morning and nightfall, nearly 400,000 Japanese filed into the palace gardens to pay their respects to the Mikado. Since the Emperor has formally ceased to be a god and has begun to move freely about his realm, he has become even more popular with his people than in the old days. His subjects seem to prefer his humanity to his divinity; at baseball games (he recently attended his first-see cut), among workers, wherever he goes, they take inexplicable comfort from...
...Parisian headquarters for the Allied press corps during World War II, TIME & LIFE Correspondent Noel F. Busch met another TIME correspondent. A newcomer, hired overseas, he had never even seen his home office and he was curious about it. How, he asked Busch over a drink, had TIME ever begun, anyway...
Both a faculty committee and a Student Council committee issued reports at the meeting on investigations of the College scholarship facilities that were begun early in the fall. Each report stressed that under no circumstances should the proportion of scholarship students in each class fall below 20 percent...
Employment: The Committee has recommended there be closer coordination between the work of the Scholarship Office and the Student Employment Office. We have begun a search for part-time jobs within the University which can be assigned to undergraduates. It seems certain that during its summer meetings on upper-class scholarship applications, the Scholarship Committee will recommend a list of upperclassmen to receive special consideration in the assignment of jobs by the Student Employment Office...