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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Alan Sweetser '51 was chosen as head of staging and Thomas W. Grossman '51, as treasurer. The Committee is soliciting the assistance of volunteers from the Class...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: '51 Committee Votes Judd as Smoker Chief | 1/8/1948 | See Source »

Fight for a Capital. In the rugged, snow-covered uplands of northwestern Greece, the Vafiades rebels attacked with 23 battalions, according to government estimates. They seemed to have chosen the government-held town of Konitsa, six miles from the Albanian border, for the capital of their new state. The government garrison in Konitsa was completely encircled while hundreds of shells crashed into the town from the guerrillas' 66-mm. guns. Wounded several times, Konstantin Dovas, the Konitsa garrison commander, directed the defense from a hospital bed. At week's end government reinforcements were pouring up the road from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREECE: Out in the Open | 1/5/1948 | See Source »

...Cobb is a boozer who likes disguises; Cesar Romero-a rather thin Stout Cortes-wears a rich black beard. Newcomer Jean Peters plays a pretty, vacuous runaway barmaid who is described, enthusiastically, as "a wench for the New World." Thomas Gomez, in priestly robes, puts forward a few ill-chosen words in favor of the conquest of Mexico (something a few centuries too soon, for a churchman of imperial Spain, about the happy day when all men, even Indians, will be equal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Jan. 5, 1948 | 1/5/1948 | See Source »

Then the boss brought forth the man he had chosen to take over Tom Stewart's job: Circuit Judge John A. Mitchell, 52, of Cookerville. Mister Crump had never even met his candidate. But what difference did that make? Roared Mister Crump: "Everybody says he has a splendid record." Once called to public attention, Judge Mitchell looked like a natural, indeed. He was a mountain man, tall (6 ft. 3 in.), lean and deliberate-something like Cordell Hull, over whose old court he now presided. He had won a D.S.C. in World War I, had served three years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TENNESSEE: Ready for Trouble | 12/22/1947 | See Source »

...orderly manner of his election. The government of Provisional President Romulo Betancourt, confident of Acción Democrática,'s strength, had taken pains to make the voting fair, and even the opposition was hard put to find grounds for charging fraud. Previous presidents had been chosen by Congress. Gallegos was elected by direct popular ballot, and every Venezuelan over 18 had the right to vote...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: VENEZUELA: Democracy's Day | 12/22/1947 | See Source »

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