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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This week as the nation buried Frank Knox in Arlington Cemetery, almost every public figure but Sewell Avery was being mentioned as his successor. Among them: Under Secretary Forrestal, 52, a Democrat, ex-president of Wall Street's Dillon Read & Co., and now Acting Secretary; Admiral William D. Leahy; Democrats Lyndon Johnson and Charles Edison; Republicans Wendell Willkie, Eric Johnston and Lieut. Commander Harold Stassen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: End of a Strenuous Life | 5/8/1944 | See Source »

Things we will miss around Harvard: the "Bang bang bang" of Tom McNoeley of the boxing department ... the unique spectacle of a master sergeant waxing a floor ... "Stand steady!" ... the waterless showers at Dillon Field House ... the sweet aroma de sweat at 85 degrees in the cage--and STILL they ask us to do deep breathing ... lectures and films on the tactical use of the 63 1/2 millimeter anti-balloon carbine (obsolete since 1906) ... trying to read the SERVICE NEWS through a maze of misprints and proof readers' lapses ... all the things we'd like to print...

Author: By S/sgt GEORGE Avakian, | Title: Specialists' Corner | 2/25/1944 | See Source »

...home State of durable ex-Senator Jim Watson gave the Senate another notable orator last week-this time a Democrat: balding, 48-year-old Samuel Dillon Jackson, ex-State Attorney General of Indiana, ex-prosecuting attorney, longtime elder in Fort Wayne's Presbyterian Church, active member of the Scottish Rite. Governor Henry F. Schricker appointed him to fill the unexpired term of the late Frederick Van Nuys (see p. 82).* Said Senator Jackson: "I will support the President...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.S. At War: Man for the Post | 2/7/1944 | See Source »

...Democratic (Ind.) chairman of the Senate Committee on the Judiciary; of a heart attack; in Vienna, Va. During his eleven years as a Senator the short, plumpish anti-New Dealer had sponsored an anti-lynching bill, opposed Supreme Court revamping and the Third Term. His successor will be Samuel Dillon Jackson...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Feb. 7, 1944 | 2/7/1944 | See Source »

...excited over the prospect of a shower that yields water at Dillon Field House. The H. A. A. got wind of it and had the leak repaired immediately...

Author: By S/sgt GEORGE Avakian, | Title: Specialists' Corner | 12/21/1943 | See Source »

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