Word: councill
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Adding Machine Co., Cobo was called in to straighten out the city's rickety finances in 1933, for the past 16 years has been quietly building up a loyal following among Detroit's foreign-born groups. The runner-up, and Cobo's November rival: Harvard-trained Council President George Edwards, 35, a onetime organizer for the C.I.O.'s Auto Workers. Edwards will buck a tough precedent in November: a U.A.W. candidate has yet to win a Detroit mayoralty election...
Large scale calculating machines may make it feasible for the government to set production goals for major industries, Frederick V. Waugh of President Truman's Council of Economic Advisers told a conference at Harvard last week...
Dean Bender will address the Student Council's first meeting of the year at 7 p.m. tonight in the Noble Room of Phillips Brooks House. He will represent the College Administration during the discussion of Council policies for the coming two terms...
...John Foster Dulles had long found his deepest interests in the church and the law. He attended the Paris peace talks of 1919, then settled back to a lifetime career in Manhattan's international law firm of Sullivan & Cromwell. He also became a driving force in the Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America. But when the Republicans urged him to make the race against the Democrats' 71-year-old ex-Governor Herbert H. Lehman, Dulles finally agreed. Said Dulles: "My own conscience wouldn't have it otherwise...
Pink-cheeked Secretary of Commerce Charles Sawyer last week crawled tentatively out on a limb. Said he: "The end of the recession may be at hand." Sad-faced old Dr. Edwin G. Nourse, chairman of the President's Council of Economic Advisers, was not ready to go quite that far. He was "very definitely encouraged," though he did not think that "disinflation" was ended...