Word: expectants
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Great Expectations. Mississippi's Senator John Stennis, a Thurmond supporter (who says that he finally voted for Harry Truman), was another kind of legislator. The President could count on him for a fair share of his program, excepting, of course, civil rights. When Stennis went down to the White House to push a friend for a U.S. attorneyship, Harry Truman didn't even ask him, Stennis reported, how he intended to vote on Taft-Hartley. With grim significance, Stennis added: "I hope and expect him to appoint this gentleman...
...President Stoke meant business about keeping politics off the campus at Baton Rouge. He wanted Louisianans to understand that the university was for education and not "an instrumentality of government." Nor was the university a playground. "Give a student a convertible and a textbook," he said, "and you cannot expect them to compete on even terms." To make sure the books won out, he reduced campus pleasure driving during school hours, restricted student phone calls in the evening, kept classrooms open all day, instead of the half-day L.S.U. had been used...
Reynolds said "he had not yet reached a definite decision" on board charges, and though no final word will be handed down on this for several weeks, he said that he "did not expect to have to make any further adjustments...
Young Lee's Chinese Restaurant doesn't expect to open up at 27 Church Street until the middle of next September, but it will try to make it before College reopens...
Summer School officials said last night they eventually expect upwards of 1600 of the School's final enrollment to be Harvard and Radcliffe students. The rest of the student body will be made up of undergraduates from other colleges and graduate students...