Word: fifth
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...responsibility. Mrs. Ogden Reid, inheriting her late husband's estate (TIME, Jan. 13), became president of the New York Herald Tribune and possessor of 170 of the paper's 200 shares. In as editor went her 33-year-old son Whitelaw ("Whitie") Reid, Yaleman, Navyman and fifth in a line of editors that started with Horace Greeley...
Richmond K. Kane '22 will lead the procession of his fellow-alumni at commencement exercises in June, the Alumni Association announced yesterday. Kane's appointment as Chief Marshal maintains the tradition of honoring a member of the twenty-fifth anniversary class with the post...
...occupation hotspots the generals had a monopoly. In Japan it was General Douglas MacArthur; in Austria, the Fifth Army's old boss, General Mark Clark (soon to be replaced by Lieut. General Geoffrey Keyes); in Germany, Lieut. General Lucius D. Clay, now also commander of all U.S. troops in Europe. As contact man with the field, General Marshall had another Army ranker as Assistant Secretary of State for occupied areas: Major General John H. Hilldring, onetime Civil Affairs Division chief in the War Department...
Early in the Congressional campaigns of last Autumn, a Republican from Minnesota promised that his party, if elected, would proceed to reduce income taxes by a flat twenty percent "across the board." A fellow partisan from Massachusetts joined the chorus, pledging his own efforts to a slash of one-fifth. Today, four months later, Harold Knutson of Minnesota is Chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, and Joe martin of Massachusetts wields the Speaker's gavel. The tax-reduction will stands at the head of the legislative calendar as House Resolution Number...
Boston area residents and local students will study the problem of "Citizen Responsibility for World Order," when the "Twenty-Fifth School of International Relations" holds its annual convention at Aggasiz Hall, Wednesday and Thursday, January 29 and 30, under the sponsorship of the Massachusetts League for Women Voters in cooperation with Radcliffe College...