Word: earls
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...meeting was short and sharp. Washington's Mon C. Wallgren declared that such cuts, which hit irrigation and power projects, reminded him of a home-builder leaving a dwelling half-finished. California's Earl Warren chimed: "These are not appropriations . . . but investments...
They thought they saw the villain-Eastern capital, which, they said, wanted to keep the West shorn of power, reduced to a mere producer of raw materials for the industrial East. Said Oregon's Republican Governor Earl Snell: "If the East looks on the West as an insignificant colony, it's certainly time ... to make known the united power of the West...
...Perfect. The U.S. Chamber of Commerce elected a new President, Earl Owen Shreve, vice president in charge of General Electric's heavy-industry sales. Iowa-born President Shreve's favorite term of complete approval used to be "640% perfect." Recently he deflated this to "106%." But his first official speech (which did not agree with the views of his boss-see The Economy) warned against similar deflationary tactics in business. Concerted price-cutting, he told the Chamber might bring a new depression...
Married. The Hon. Richard Frederick Wood, 26, son of the Earl of Halifax, Britain's wartime Ambassador to the U.S.; and Diana Kellett, 20; in London. During the British Eighth Army's North African campaign, the bridegroom lost both legs...
Henry Lopez 31, will succeed Jerome Rappaport '47 21, as president. Other officers are Earl Capehart 21, first vice-president, George Esser 3L, second vice-president, Francis Milligan 2L, secretary, and DeWitt Kirk 3L, treasurer...