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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Seniors and graduate students wishing to apply for Fulbright foreign study fellowships for 1950-51 must file their applications by 5 p.m. today, Assistant Dean Wallace McDonald '44 announced yesterday...
...British labor were heading for a showdown. For more than two years, the trade unions had grudgingly gone along with the government's policy of virtually freezing wages & prices. But when devaluation of the pound thawed out some prices and sent them climbing upwards, the unions' rank & file rebelled. Britain's T.U.C. (Trades Union Congress) presented new demands: higher wages, more government subsidies to keep food prices down, additional taxes to cut down business profits...
That statement in Crommelin's personnel file made it almost certain that he would not be promoted to rear admiral (he was the second ranking airman in line) by the selection board which meets this week. It also greatly diminished his chances of ever attaining flag rank...
Beyond these matters, Hutchins' chief interests are his old ones. He is helping to sponsor a project, with Mortimer Adler at its head, to compile a giant index of the Great Books-a learned cross-file of all the great ideas the great minds have ever voiced. Meanwhile, as a result of brisk promotion by the university-organized Great Books Foundation, adult education classes in the Great Books are becoming a nationwide middlebrow vogue. Hutchins himself teaches one class of prominent Chicagoans (known as "The Fat Men's Course"). There are 50,000 other people hashing the books...
Little more than an hour before that deadline, a 30-day extension was agreed upon, subject to approval of the rank and file of the AFL Masters, Mates and Pilots and the 38 companies making up the employers' group from Atlantic and Gulf ports...