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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...plain fact was that big, bluff William O'Dwyer had been a pretty good mayor, all things considered. Last week in an election that brought out 93% of New York City's registered voters, he was sent back to the City Hall...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Fair Deal Town | 11/21/1949 | See Source »

Such a rebirth has brought the Concentration Dinners to life in some of the Houses in recent years. For four years Leverett House has been gathering one or another group of its twenty-three fields of concentration together once a week for sherry, dinner, and a bull-session with some outstanding men in the field. The turn out has always been good enough to warrant four or five meetings of each field a term...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fireside Chat | 11/18/1949 | See Source »

Unfortunately, the war and its aftermath have not brought in their wake any sudden upturn in business ethics. And while most local tradesmen treat students fairly, there are always a few on the periphery of the Square business world who are governed by the famous motto of P. T. Barnum. The recent rash of threatened suits against a local furniture dealer is evidence of this condition...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Consumer First Aid | 11/17/1949 | See Source »

Last year the College group correlated the operations of all of the NSA chapters in the country in bringing 160 displaced persons to American universities. Although no more of the students will be brought to the College in the near future, the Association is working on the placing of displaced persons in other schools that have not yet been approached

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard's Seven Displaced Persons Slip Easily into University Routine | 11/17/1949 | See Source »

...noon they brought me lunch, and I was so hungry that I ate it all. When a nurse came to take my tray she said, "You ate a good meal...

Author: By Edward J. Ottenheimer jr., | Title: THE WALRUS SAID | 11/17/1949 | See Source »

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