Word: daniels
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Baden-Powell founded the Boy Scouts in 1908-six years after Seton established his "Tribe of Woodcraft Indians." In 1910 the organization spread to the U.S. and the "Boy Scouts of America" was incorporated, absorbing Seton's "Indians" and also the "Sons of Daniel Boone...
When the state of Georgia moved to revoke the charter of the anti-Negro, anti-Semitic Columbians, Inc. (TIME, Nov. 11), demagogic President Emory Burke disdainfully tore the charter to shreds, mailed the pieces to Assistant Attorney General Daniel Duke. The loss of a charter would not stop them. Last week khaki-shirted Columbians assembled for another hate feast...
...managing editors, John Shaw Billings and Daniel Longwell, saw LIFE through its first decade. Entering its second, it will have a new managing editor, dark-haired, sad-visaged Harvardman Joseph J. Thorndike Jr., the first man to join Longwell's experimental staff in 1936. At 33, Thorndike says he "is regarded by most people as a taciturn New England type, although by Massachusetts standards [I am] jovial and loquacious...
...Died. Daniel Florence ("Judge Dan") Cohalan, 79, Tammany Hall's longtime political strategist and onetime Grand Sachem, chief adviser to Bosses Charles F. Murphy and John F. Curry in the heyday of brass-spittoon politics, noisy spokesman of New York City's Irish, former Justice of the State Supreme Court (1911-24); of a heart ailment; in Manhattan...
...little Blue flag has gone astray . . . and Daniel P. S. Paul '46 wants it returned immediately by the pranksters who "borrowed" it--a huge Eli banner--from Memorial Hall. "It was loaned to us by the Yale Corporation as decoration for the Law School dance," explained Paul. "If it's returned to Wigglesworth A-22 or to Phillips Brooks House, the Law School won't prosecute...