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...clauses may be traded off. And Vinson will have the chief part in any "deals." He is recognized as more of an expert on homeside military affairs than most generals; and Millard Tydings left a less experienced man in charge of the Senate Military Affairs Committee when he lost chairmanship of that group after last November's elections. Vinson has said that he will fight any attempt to lower the minimum age or to write in a student deferment policy...
...Lord Is Good." Calm and deliberate, dressed in a neat grey suit, Marshall handled the shotgun questioning by the members of the Senate Foreign Relations and Armed Services Committees, under the snorting chairmanship of Texas' Tom Connally...
This did not mean that Sir Ernest, last and greatest of South Africa's great "Randlords," was going to take things much easier. In his three-story citadel he would still work his usual 16 hours a day, still sit firmly in the chairmanship of his Anglo American Corp. of South Africa, Ltd., the master holding company through which he has built an economic pyramid of more than 200 companies worth more than $2.5 billion. They control 15% of the Transvaal's gold production, 43% of its coal, 50% of its explosives, 9% of the world...
...Broadway theater, a fabulous invalid that lingers on & on, was about to get another shot in the arm. Last week Playwright-Biographer Robert (Idiot's Delight; Roosevelt and Hopkins) Sherwood announced that he had accepted the chairmanship of a new Council of the Living Theater. The plan is to launch "a nationwide campaign of education ... to arouse in more people a keener appreciation and zest for the whole theatrical experience as opposed to the frantic and transient interest in hit shows alone...
Born in Austin, Texas in 1908, Key received his A.B. from the University of Texas and his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago. He joined the faculty of Johns Hopkins in 1938, rising to the chairmanship of the Department of Political Science...