Word: donee
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Colonel Gordon E. Textor, a West Pointer with no newspaper experience, started the shakeup. The way it was done left the Zeitung staff dizzy. First Textor fired Foreign Editor Hans Lehmann for pro-Nazi leanings, though Textor had refused to approve Lehmann's dismissal for the same reason only three months ago. When twelve other German staffers resigned in protest, Textor named Bruce Buttles, an ex-Christian Science Monitor reporter and a civilian employee of the Army, as Zeitung publisher...
...Partnership. Ruth Kerr is a Baptist. "Anything I've done," she says earnestly, "was accomplished because of what God has done." God has been a partner in the company since 1902, when debt-ridden Alexander Kerr, an obscure wholesale grocery man, took the tithing vow at Portland, Ore. Three months later, Kerr took a chance: he borrowed money to buy a patent on a glass vacuum jar that could be sealed at home. Kerr got a San Francisco glass works to supply his materials, and in four years had a profitable business...
Into the depot at Aurora, Ill. last week glided a diesel locomotive with two spanking new streamlined, bubble-domed coaches. Out of one stepped Ralph Budd, 69, the highballing president of the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad, who had done more than any other railroader to make such dream trains a reality...
...Funds for research at Harvard are not sufficient for the work that should be done," McLaughlin said...
...English Department has been holding fast to one of the College's last vestiges of out-dated classicism, the requirement of a reading knowledge of Latin or Greek for honors candidates. The sandard defense of this requirement is historical, resting more on "it's always been done" than on the peculiar merits of the languages themselves...