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Molotov's right-hand man in the Foreign Office is 40-year-old Alexei Vassiltchenko, who few years ago was Stalin's clean-up man. In the evenings he plays a card game called "Preference" with his boss and listens to his long-winded, quasi-scientific dissertations on foreign policy. Vassiltchenko is Molotov's file man (Molotov cannot go half an hour without consulting a file), and one of his files is labeled Bessarabia and The Straits. In the view of the Russian Foreign Office, Bessarabia, the Dardanelles and the Bosporus are parts of the same objective...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: What Molotov Wants | 7/15/1940 | See Source »

...will decide at game time between Fred Rowe and Dan Carmichael, both Seniors, for the pitching role. They shared the hurling in the first Bengal game that ended in defeat for the Orange and Black. The outfield will include Bill MacCoy, sensational Sophomores hitter, who is bating in the clean-up position, and Norm Crosby, former Exeter star. Senior Brooks Jones, who is slugging the ball at a lively pace, will do the catching...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Macdonald Returns to Baseball Wars; Nine Battle Tigers and Pennsylvania Batsmen | 5/17/1940 | See Source »

...University of Pennsylvania batsmen are led by three football stars of last fall. Batting clean-up and holding down first base will be Harlan Gustafson, the 6 foot, 3 inch, 195 pound end and captain of the football team. Frank Reagan will catch, and Bill Koepsell will play second...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Macdonald Returns to Baseball Wars; Nine Battle Tigers and Pennsylvania Batsmen | 5/17/1940 | See Source »

Tuesday, March 26, will find President Conant still in Los Angeles at an all-day meeting of the Harvard Clubs of the region, where he will address a luncheon audience, including Governor Culbert Olson and Mayor Fletcher Bowron, who recently won renown for his clean-up of the city. He will speak on the need of democracy for unusual...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CONANT STARTS ON ANNUAL TOUR WEST | 3/6/1940 | See Source »

...highest auto license tax in the U. S. (Sam Jones promise: a flat $3 tax), had 27 new taxes, including a general 1% sales tax that filled Louisiana pockets with brass and aluminum tokens, one of the highest gasoline taxes in the country. General was the clamor for a clean-up of the judicial system. Said Sam Jones: 1) dictatorial laws must be abolished; 2) courts must be placed above reproach; 3) Louisiana schools must be revitalized. "Louisiana has gone back into the hands of the people. . . . A new day has dawned on this State after a long night with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LOUISIANA: Twelve Years (Concluded) | 3/4/1940 | See Source »

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