Word: begun
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Hold the Phone. Beirne, picked by the U.S. Junior Chamber of Commerce as one of ten outstanding young men of 1946 for his "mature responsibility as a labor leader," had begun negotiating in January. He is a determined and militant young man, a high-school graduate, who worked as a drill-press operator, department-store clerk, went to night school and leaped into labor politics as a district union representative...
...then, too, FitzGerald had begun to wonder if his lonely, esthetical life were not a huge mistake-"[a] seedy dullness ... a ... total failure and mess." He proceeded to complete the mess by marrying a gaunt Sunday-school teacher. "Lucy Barton," says tactful Biographer Terhune, "was doubtless attractive; but she lacked physical charm." "I am going to be married -don't congratulate me," the bridegroom told a friend. He turned up at church in "an old slouch hat," spoke only once at the wedding breakfast. Offered some blanc mange, he waved it away, muttering "Ugh! Congealed bridesmaid...
Preliminary investigation of the '46 Class elections, reported as "suspicious" by various Class members, has also been begun by Weld. The elections were held during the war when only V-12 members were present, according to complaints...
...Government when it had lately been urging Chiang Kai-shek to take Communists into the Chinese Government?). Nevertheless, the total purport of the message was clear to the world: the U.S., realizing (however dimly and belatedly) that it was engaged in a deadly struggle with Communism (see below), had begun a positive effort to organize a non-Communist world. The world, knowing well that more than Greece and Turkey, more than the Mediterranean and the Middle East were involved in the Truman speech, reacted to the U.S.'s newly invigorated policy...
Meanwhile, out behind the Stadium, Crimson weight hopes have already begun to cystallize. The Harvard 16-pound hammer record of 170 feet 1 inch was established on May 20, 1939, by W. J. Shallow '40. It is about as safe now as a balloon in the hands of three five-year-olds. When it will be broken is merely a question of which of the three Varsity strong men rounds into shape quickest. Leading the triumvirate is Jack Fisher, a Senior and All-New England center for Dick Harlow last fall. The former Andover athlete who threw 168 feet...