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Eberstadt went to Washington last January at the behest of two old friends, Under Secretary of the Navy James Forrestal and Under Secretary of War Robert Patterson. Working with Forrestal and Patterson on the Munitions Board, he has tried to use the same straight-line tactics that Bernard M. Baruch applied to World War I, has sided with the Army in its arguments with WPB but has always believed that the right men could make WPB work. Now he will get his chance to prove...
...Japanese Diet theoretically has full legislative power and control over finance. Actually it is little more than a grand-scale sounding board for public opinion. The Emperor can dissolve the lower house at any time, and has often done so at the behest of the Premier and Cabinet. The Cabinet is not responsible to the Diet, but to the Emperor. And the Cabinet is virtually at the mercy of the Army & Navy...
Retiring Dean Donham, then just beginning his 23 year term as Dean at the behest of President Lowell, chose David as his first assistant. In that capacity and later as Associate Professor, Dean David cooperated with Dean Donham on the introduction of the case system, long used in the teaching of Law and Medicine, but a radical innovation for business schools, and one which has been imitated universally...
Mother's Day, first nationally proclaimed by President Woodrow Wilson in 1914 at the behest of an eccentric Philadelphia spinster, Anna Jarvis, and since proclaimed by successive U.S. presidents (who without exception have loved their mothers) has long since become Big Business for florists, greeting-card makers, candy makers, telegraph companies...
...other members of Georgia's Board of Regents to a nearby building, there convened a special meeting of the board. Purpose: a last desperate effort to save Georgia's academic reputation. The regents hurriedly voted to rehire two educators they had previously voted to fire at the behest of Governor Eugene Talmadge (Dr. Walter D. Cocking and Dr. Marvin S. Pittman-TIME, July 21; July 28), then let Regent Robert resume his trip...