Word: elevens
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...speakers in eleven cities addressed themselves straight to the President; the messages were personal. Some were corny in their text, but all had a quality of rare sincerity. Ike got his first big laugh when Actor James Stewart, in Los Angeles, began haltingly: "Mr. President . . . General ... Sir .. ." But the President was plainly touched when Stewart, who had served under him as a bomber wing commander, concluded: "God bless you, Mr. President." When the Atlanta pickup came, both the President and Mamie gazed closely at the face of their old friend, Golfer Bobby Jones, as though trying to fathom Jones...
...limited demonstration on the order of their seizure of Yikiang off the Tachens in January 1955 is possible-even probable. Logical place for it would be a small island group known colloquially as the 'White Dogs' eleven miles southeast of the Matsus. They are hardly worth expensive defense. Yet their fall would imperil the Matsus, and if accompanied by passive U.S. acquiescence, would severely shake our Formosa position...
Padded Profits? McGinnis claimed that his economies resulted in a $9,275,000 profit for eleven months of 1955, almost double the 1954 net. But Frederic ("Buck") Dumaine Jr., whom McGinnis ousted as president in 1954, charged that McGinnis had used cash reserves and in come from subsidiaries, e.g., The Connecticut Co., to pad railroad earnings. Said Dumaine: "They must have lost $7,000,000 running the railroad 20 months...
Nazism is completely dead, the legend of Hitler is gone, German Ambassador and President Emeritus James B. Conant '14 said in a television broadcast Monday night with Louis M. Lyons, Curator of the Neiman Foundation. Conant was back in this country for the first time in eleven months...
...travel is here to stay and an occasional junket to Chicago for the Crimson eleven might not unduly strain Mr. Bolles' budget. Harvard has a large alumni clan in the greater Chicago area, and the Ivy teams have always drawn well in the midwest. Chicago itself is a well-known institution and a Maroon eleven of Ivy League caliber should be a good gate attraction...