Word: chapman
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...policies. Folsom served (1934-35) on the council which developed the Social Security program and on other business advisory groups appointed by Franklin Roosevelt and Harry Truman. Since 1950 he has been the brilliant chairman of the Committee for Economic Development, a private, nonprofit research organization. ¶Horace Chapman ("Chappie") Rose, 45, Cleveland corporation lawyer, who will be Assistant Secretary. Rose's firm (Jones, Day, Cockley & Reavis) represents Humphrey's mammoth M. A. Hanna Co., and his estate in the Cleveland suburbs neighbors Humphrey's. No stranger on the Washington scene, Rose served as secretary to Supreme...
...Neutral Jungle. The basic fact about the war in Malaya is the jungle. "The 'thing that astonished me most," writes Colonel F. Spencer . Chapman, an Englishman who spent three years there in World War II behind the Japanese lines, "was the absolute straightness, the perfect symmetry of the tree trunks, like the pillars of a dark and limitless cathedral. The ground itself was covered with a thick carpet of dead leaves and seedling trees. There was practically no earth visible, and certainly no grass or flowers. Up to a height of ten feet or so, a dense undergrowth...
...World War II the Communists, known then as the Malayan Peoples' Anti-Japanese Army, were accepted as allies. Colonel Chapman, the survivor of a British "stay-behind" party after the fall of Singapore, describes a Communist camp: "A roughly leveled parade ground, about the size of a tennis court ... A motley guard of honor consisting of about 20 Chinese, including two girls, armed with service rifles or shotguns . . . The majority of them were under 20, and there was one boy who could not have been more than twelve...
...Washington, hundreds of Government officials got ready to look for new jobs. At the White House, Secretary of the Interior Oscar Chapman, Agriculture Secretary Charles Brannan, Postmaster General Jesse Donaldson and Attorney General James McGranery interviewed each other for the newsreels. Exchange...
...Chapman-"Here comes the Attorney General now. What are your plans after...