Word: busyness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With a brisk rubbing of Republican hands and some licking of chops, the new congressional bosses got down to work. Thursday morning, House and Senate steering committees met. Thursday afternoon, Congressman Joe Martin and Senator Bob Taft made statements to the press. Thursday evening, House and Senate committeemen dined at...
The two other interested parties were also busy recasting their strategy. Palestine Arabs sent a delegation to confer with the exiled Grand Mufti in Cairo. Arab participation in the London Conference on Palestine when it reconvenes on Dec. 17 may result.
¶At the University of Pennsylvania the next night, before the Penn-Army game, 3,000 men & women staged the most destructive "Rowbottom"* in the University's history. For four hours, demonstrators cut trolley wires and set kerosene fires on the streetcar tracks, overturned autos and punctured tires, kept...
One of New York City's oldest and most famed churches was busy last week lengthening its cords and strengthening its stakes. Only a block and a half from the twin towers of 100-year-old St. George's on once-fashionable Stuyvesant Square, an 18-block housing...
Although busy extolling the work of his own Fred Nadherny, Levi Jackson, and Company, Odell nevertheless did find time to praise Harvard's "Chip" Gannon for "his splendid work." On the line, he also gave accolades to center Jack Fisher who "was raising hell in there all afternoon." As for...