Word: chief
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Fired? In Salt Lake City, Mayor Adiel F. Stewart abruptly halted a flowery speech observing the retirement of Fire Chief J. K. Piercey when the chief nudged him, said, "There's some mistake. I'm not retiring...
...several years it has been the desire of the Harvard Annex to become a part of the University, but the question of financial endowment has thus far been the chief obstacle.... The reasons for this closer union of the Annex and the University have been clearly stated by Mrs. Agassiz in a letter to the last Nation. They are first, "that the existence of the Annex and its present course of study may be permanently insured to the students;" second, "that the students of the Annex should have freer use of the library and other educational facilities belonging...
Cause of the fire was a defective shutoff valve in the oil burner which failed to function, causing the overflowing oil to ignite in the pit. Deputy Fire Chief Vincent Galvin declared, "It could have been a dangerous situation if it got out of the boiler room...
Richard R. Baxter, assistant professor of Law, will become a full professor on July 1. Considered an authority on international law, Baxter is former chief of the international law branch of the Army Judge Advocate General's office...
...battle started with a statement by R. Conrad Cooper, chief negotiator for the steel industry, that the industry is considering a mutual-aid pact or even an industrywide shutdown should the union decide to strike one or two firms instead of striking the whole industry at once as in the past. Such a pact would be similar to the profit-sharing pact signed by struck airlines last fall (TIME, Nov. 10), except that the airlines later got tentative approval from the Civil Aeronautics Board, which can exempt airlines from antitrust procedures...