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With this matter-of-fact statement. General of the Army George Catlett Marshall this week delivered to the nation what may be his valedictory as Chief of Staff. In a "Biennial Report to the Secretary of War," he told how that security had been won. But mainly-and most earnestly-George Marshall warned the U.S. of the certain consequences of future unpreparedness and of how the U.S. might be destroyed in another...
...award was the forerunner of the Corcoran's 19th Biennial Exhibition of Contemporary American Oil Paintings, which opens next fortnight with a show of 219 invited works. The Corcoran Biennial carries four sizable awards. This year's Second Prize, $1,500, went to Malvin Marr Albright who signs his work "Zsissly," to keep from being confused with his twin brother, famed Chicago Painter Ivan Le Lorraine Albright. Marsh's first-prizewinner raised an occasional eyebrow, lowbrow and highbrow; they lowered to normal at Zsissly-Albright's Deer Isle, Maine, a faithful-to-nature landscape...
...Pittsburgh meeting" was the Federal Council's biennial meeting, where one speaker, Dr. Mark A. Dawber, executive secretary of the Home Missions Council, said: "The Roman Catholic Church is influencing public affairs and the community pattern in a much more vital and deliberate way than Protestantism, [ which ] is too divided to influence the . . . pattern on a national scale...
Looking ahead, steelmen could see the brooding figure of John L. Lewis, and they urged that the biennial soft-coal wage pact discussions start now instead of awaiting March 1, the date now set. The United Mine Workers bided their time...
Should Easter fall on the same day every year, instead of shifting with the moon? Last week at the biennial meeting of the Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America, 300 delegates representing 26,000,000 Protestants of 25 denominations addressed themselves to the problem. Their recommendation: it should fall on the second Sunday in April, as nearest the historic date of the Resurrection...