Word: buttons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...purpose, letting disagreements over details, methods, means fall where they might. He had long ago learned the prime art of the Presidency: persuasion. He had learned what every President must learn, the reason no President can become a dictator: he can never gain any major end by pressing a button, or issuing an order. Always, eternally, he must persuade. If his Cabinet members are worthy of their jobs, they can command far larger salaries in private life than the Government's $15,000 a year. No President can order a man of such a type to do anything...
...both sides, and Dixieland fans will get a kick out of the ensemble jam on the finishes. . . Cozy Cole and Chu Berry grace Cab Calloway's OREB recording A Chicken Ain't Nothing But a Bird. Tune was featured in the Southland floor show last year. . . lna Ray Button's new out offers two riff tunes: Five O'Clock Whistle and Make Me Know It (OREB). Band shows lots of promise, particularly in the rhythm section...
Earlier plans for the President's visit included a short ceremony in which Langdon P. Marvin '41, head of the Roosevelt for President College Clubs and godson of the President, was to have pinned a "Youth for Roosevelt" button on the President's lapel. This had to be cancelled for Tack of time. However, Marvin did report to the President on his activities in a fifteen minute conference at the train following the rally. Mr. Roosevelt expressed appreciation of the work he was doing...
Instructor in Economics 81, Labor Problems, Nixon noted with surprised that, among members of the course present Saturday, there was not one Willkie supporter. He himself was wearing a button in his lapel, but it was not for Roosevelt or Willkie; it was an emblem of the Anti-Profanity League, which Nixon joined on Friday, though he "swears" his action had no connection with the Lewis address...
...grants. Recently President Robert Gordon Sproul asked John U. Calkins Jr., attorney for the university regents, whether university professors were affected by the Hatch Act. In an opinion published in the faculty bulletin, Mr. Calkins replied that they were, added: "I do not think one who merely wears a button . . . is likely to be considered as participating in a political campaign within the prohibitions...