Word: bruces
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...kept secrets in Washington was out-Economic Cooperation Administrator Paul Hoffman's choice for deputy ECA administrator (salary: $17,500). After eliminating at least four of Hoffman's suggestions, President Truman nominated and sent to the Senate for confirmation the name of horsy, 68-year-old Howard Bruce, chairman of the board of the Worthington Pump & Machinery Corp...
...Roosevelt made him the target of personal attack when, charging the Republicans with being obstructionists and bracketing Martin with New York's anti-New Deal Congressmen Bruce Barton and Hamilton Fish, F.D.R. sneered: "That great historic trio . . . Martin, Barton and Fish." Joe Martin summed up his own political philosophy four years later. There is a war in the U.S., he said, between the idea of a free society and the idea of a regimented and planned society; the second conception lives upon "vast streams of Government debt," takes its shape from "a bureaucratic elite under the command...
...Bruce Rogers, top-shelf book designer, the American Academy of Arts and Letters paid its highest honor-a gold medal the academy had created in 1915 and awarded only six times...
Flanked by fellow-diggers Bruce Bowe and Hugh Hencken. Carlton S. Coon, professor of Anthropology, holds up a bone from an ox that roamed the prairies 150,000 years ago. The three are members of the first post-war expedition of the American School of Prehistoric Research, just returned from Tangler...
...Becker, Edmund J. Blake, Jr., Charles D. Bottenfield, David A. Brockway, Alexander J. Calla, Frederick R. Coburn, James N. Douglass, Robert A. Feldman, Frederick M. Fialkow, Roy M. Goodman, William G. B. Graham, John T. Hazel, Arthur Dwight Hyde, Jr., George D. Jackson, Edward R. Kane, Kenneth Keniston, V. Bruce LaSala, William van H. Mason, David G. Nathan, A. Werner Pleus, Roger V. Pugh, Jr., John P. Rice, Jr., Henry M. Silviera, Jr., John Talbot, Jr., Robert E. Tomasello, B. David Waring, and Jeffrey Watkins...