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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Near great: Theodore Roosevelt, Cleveland, John Adams and Polk. Average: John Quincy Adams, Monroe, Hayes, Madison, Van Buren, Taft, Arthur, McKinley, Johnson, Hoover, Benjamin Harrison. Below average: Tyler, Coolidge, Fillmore, Taylor, Buchanan and Pierce. Failures: Grant and Harding, both of whose administrations were marked by corruption...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES,HISTORICAL NOTES: Election Sidelights | 11/8/1948 | See Source »

...Benjamin Kimball will conduct the course, which opens at 8 p.m. tonight and will be held on alternate Thursday evenings. Discussion of operatic records will form the core of the series...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Law Wives Get Opera Appreciation Course | 11/4/1948 | See Source »

Democrats at Harvard were hardly so volatile as their opponents. In 1888, for instance, there were 650 Republicans and 493 Democrats. The backers of Benjamin Harrison held a mass rally in Tremont Temple, Boston, with Edward Everett Hale, 1839, as chairman and ex-Governors George Robinson and John Long, and Senator Henry Cabot Lodge, '71, as speakers. Three days later a three-gun salute sparked the big march for Harrison. But as for the Democrats, what was apparently their only campaign activity was listed by the CRIMSON as follows: "G. S. Howe '89 speaks tonight at a democratic (sic) rally...

Author: By John G. Simon, | Title: College--G.O.P. Marriage Is Still Going Strong | 10/30/1948 | See Source »

...only specific action by the Committee was the appointment of a three-man Food Sub-Committee to meet with the dining room manager of the Union. Chosen for this suggestion group were Douglas W. Patterson '52, Robert D. Mohlman '52, and Benjamin F. MacDonald...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Union Committee Has First Meeting | 10/28/1948 | See Source »

Died. René Benjamin, 63, Royalist French novelist and essayist, who charmed his countrymen during World War I with Gaspard and Grandgoujon, outraged them during the occupation with Le Printemps Tragique, an attack on the Third Republic; following an operation; in Tours, France...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Oct. 18, 1948 | 10/18/1948 | See Source »

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