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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Johnson: "The power of the Senate is very great. No wonder that certain persons want to see its power curtailed. . . . They wish it because they have some ulterior motive in preventing the exercise of the treaty-making power in the manner required by the Constitution." Missouri's Bennett Champ Clark said a friend told him it was common talk in the State Department that there was no intention of submitting a peace treaty to Congress at the end of the war but that arrangements would be concluded by executive agreements. Asserted Ohio's Robert A. Taft: "There...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: And Then WHAM! | 12/14/1942 | See Source »

...trooped to his dressing room to hobnob with the fight mob. But Beau Jack was no palooka. Sticking to his battle-royal style, he licked 40 of his 45 opponents. And with Wergeles' incessant trumpeting about his Stork Club backers, Beau Jack became famed as the Stork Club champ. He made so much dough that Manager Wergeles recently repaid the syndicate every dollar they invested. Even the Beau has $10,000 in a trust fund...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Stork Club Champ | 11/23/1942 | See Source »

...purple tie, yellow shoes. He dislikes Harlem: too noisy. But he can't stay away from Broadway shooting galleries. He gets $3 a week for spending money, shoots most of it away. Girls he shuns because the syndicate warned him they would prevent him from becoming a champ...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Stork Club Champ | 11/23/1942 | See Source »

Finishing fourth was Castle and in number five spot was Bragdon, the first Princeton man to cross the finish line. Captain Bill Bird, last years's Big Three cross country champ, finished sixth for the Blue...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CROSS COUNTRY TEAMS UPSET YALE, PRINCETON | 10/31/1942 | See Source »

Yale will field a very tough team, headed by Roy Schwartzkopf, indoor two mile IC4A champion and brother of the famous Michigan miler, Ralph Schwartzkopf, and Captain Bill Bird, last year's Big Three champ...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Varsity Harriers Will Run in Big Three Contest Today | 10/30/1942 | See Source »

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