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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Target. After the peace, he became the central figure in the vicious interservice feuding. It was he who urged and brought about a compromise federation; merger went through, largely because of the tacit understanding that Forrestal would be appointed to run it. Then, as Secretary of Defense, he found that his own authority under the compromise was not enough to bring order and direction from the bitter wrangling...
...steady decline in Communist Party membership (from 2,500,000 to 2,000,000 within the past six months). The party's prestige and influence had faded notice ably in its stronghold, the trade unions. "Today there is not much chance for us," admitted a Communist central committeeman in Rome last week. Then he added: "All we are doing is preparing for tomorrow." And the best hope for a Red tomorrow still lay in the plight of Italy's ill-paid, ill-fed, ill-housed masses...
Ashby was installed at a meeting of the Trustees on July 21. He spoke to the Board for two hours, and during this session the Board decided to dismiss two central figures in the "Olivet Policy," Professor T. Barton Akeley, who had taught political science at the college for 12 years, and his wife, the college librarian...
...Wants Central Agency...
...other central arguing point was the proposed orientation section. Gilbert claimed that by the time the Register came out much of the orientation material would be dated and that freshmen could get it elsewhere anyway. The proponents of the plan felt this was a valuable and necessary extension of Register coverage from the customary names, pictures, addresses formula...