Word: departmentals
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Good-natured, ineffectual Harry Woodring, an Oxford Grouper and an isolationist, seemed unable to grasp the imminence of war, proved to be an ineffective Secretary. Harry Woodring's inaction and Louis Johnson's burning desire for the job precipitated a three-year running feud between the two top...
Hurrying through Washington's Union Station, she looked like any Government stenographer, eagerly on her way to a New York City weekend. Hatless and smartly turned out in a sporty belted coat, she carried a small valise. But Judith Coplon was no ordinary working girl. At 27, she had...
Manhattan's Barnard College for girls had always expected big things of Judith Coplon. She majored in history, was managing editor of the college paper, graduated cum laude in 1943. Said her class yearbook: "Deeply philosophical about the fundamentals of life ... an astute analytical mind lurks behind a baby...
Fuller Lives. The American Military Government has spurred local people to take steadily increasing responsibility. Nagasaki's normal cheerfulness has been largely restored by giving personal needs priority over industrial recovery. Food is nearly up to prewar level, with one-seventh the supply provided by America. Department stores are...
Tallest but One. He set up Yale's school of engineering, its department of drama, its Institute of Human Relations, and its observatory at Johannesburg, South Africa. To the horror of many of his trustees, he insisted on opening the first graduate school of nursing in the U.S. He...