Word: bucked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Commissioner of Public Safety. In 1942 he strummed his way into a post on the State Public Service Commission. A "shouting Baptist," he was born in northern Louisiana's hilly Jackson Parish, one of eleven children of a cotton farmer. His grandfather had a local reputation as a buck-&-wing artist. Jimmie planned to be a teacher. He graduated from Beech Springs Consolidated School in a class of three and attended a New Orleans business college. Later he got a B.A. at Pineville's Louisiana College, an M.A. at Louisiana State, and finally joined the faculty of Shreveport...
...Paul H. Buck, dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, will represent the University in extending a greeting to them. Captain George N. Barker, USN, commanding officer of all Naval Schools here; Lieut, Frank F. Smart, Jr. (Chaplain Corps), USN; and Lieut. Edward Hodnett, USNR, officer in charge of the V-12 Unit, will also speak...
...Freshmen began registering this morning and along with the V-12 will begin classes Monday. This evening there will be an informal reception for the new students in the Adams House Common Room. They will be addressed by Dean Buck and Dean Willard Sperry, with Dean Leighton presiding. There is a required meeting for these men Saturday morning in Emerson D, at which time they will hear from Mr. Richard Gummere, Chairman of the Committee on Admissions, and from the Chairman of the Department of Hygiene...
...hearings. But swarthy Jagjit Singh went to work. He organized no letter campaign, deluged no Congressmen with telegrams, threw no Scotch-&-soda parties in a plush hotel room. Instead he padded up & down corridors of the Congressional office building, calling on members. He found them sympathetic, but unwilling to buck the U.S. State Department, the British Empire and UNRRA. He argued: India was chipping in $35 million to UNRRA, while millions of its own were starving. How could UNRRA move into India to feed the 750,000 Burmese refugees there, but not feed the hungry Indians alongside? Finally Republican Karl...
College civilian registration will drop during the spring term to a low mark of an estimated 677 undergraduates as against a pre-war total of 3500, Dean Buck announced last night. The entering Freshman Class of 75 will swell the Class of 1947 to 644 men, of whom an estimated 350 will remain to study in Cambridge in the coming trimester...