Word: davids
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Nominated Washington Investment Banker George A. Garrett as Minister to Eire to succeed crusty, outspoken David Gray, who was retiring after five wartime years of battling belligerent Irish neutrality and keeping Dublin diplomatic circles in an awed uproar...
...preceding hour the Senate had been idle and Senators had strolled about the cloakrooms, smoking and gossiping. At the appointed time they walked back in. No one wanted to say much; everyone's mind was made up. In a few minutes it was all over and David E. Lilienthal-center of the most violent controversy which had touched the 80th Congress-was confirmed as chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission...
Last week Member David Jackman charged that the convention had become a "Doodlebug of Confusion." He promptly added to the confusion himself. With one eye on the hundreds of millions the U.S. had spent on bases in Newfoundland, he proposed that a third delegation be sent to Washington to "inform the . . . U.S. of the convention's wish to learn the [U.S.] Government's attitude on federal union of Newfoundland with...
...record." That night United did have a crash on Elk Mountain, Wyoming (21 killed), the worst in United's history. Pat has never forgotten that lesson. Despite his habit of being right, he gets on well with most other airmen, even better with his employees, especially his pilots (David Behncke, hard-to-please boss of the gold-plated pilots' union, calls Patterson the "best airline executive in the business.") But sometimes his crisp manner irritates some of his compeers in the industry...
Graduation will cover a five-day span of pomp and tradition for the first time since 1941, culminating on June 5 with the awarding of 2,317 degrees, David M. Little '18, Secretary to the University, announced yesterday...