Word: brewster
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Joining Rivers, Rep. Hinshaw (R-Cal.) asserted there should be a "complete and thorough inquiry in hope of finding a remedy.' Senator Brewster (R-Maine), a member of the Senate Commerce Committee, said "people are getting afraid...
Hills & a Home. Cardigan's Headmaster William Brewster, 53, also runs a conventional prep school near by (Kimball Union Academy). Two years ago a friend, Dartmouth Alumnus Harold ("Hap") Hinman, took him to see a deserted estate near Canaan, N.H., with Canaan Street Lake at its doorstep and the New Hampshire hills at its back. To help Brewster and Hinman start their school, Dartmouth College, which owned the estate, sold it to them for next to nothing. Well-to-do New Englanders (among them: Vermont's U.S. Senator Ralph E. Flanders, the Boston & Maine's President Edward...
...subjects assumed that the book board would have the same high critical standards as the Memphis Board of Motion Picture Censors which turned thumbs down on Brewster's Millions because Negro Comedian Rochester had an important role, excised scenes from the Ziegfeld Follies of 1946 which involved Negro Actress Lena Horne, and banned The Outlaw, starring sexy Jane Russell, because of "too much shooting...
...final evaluation of the 70-day hearings, the Democratic majority found the military to blame, found no fault in the planning or actions of the Roosevelt Administration. In a minority report Republican Senators Ferguson (Michigan) and Brewster (Maine) blamed Franklin Roosevelt and Secretaries Hull, Stimson and Knox, but necessarily found the military commanders were also slow of head and foot...
...been when the committee sat down to write its 492-page report: how much was the Administration to blame? With the filing of the report, many a U.S. citizen assumed that the case was now one for the historians. Not yet. This week, Maine's Brewster looked forward to the election of a Republican Congress; one thing he intended to push when that day came: a second Congressional Pearl Harbor investigation...