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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When Rube Fleet resigned in 1923, the Army was sorry to see him go. He went to work for Gallaudet Corp. (airplanes) as vice president and general manager, saw it fold up, with his active assistance, because it lacked the breath of life. Then he organized Consolidated, and settled down in Buffalo. He had a trick of picking good men. One of them was Isaac M. Laddon, onetime Army aircraft engineer who is now vice president of Consolidated and the design genius who turns out Consolidated planes. Another was Larry Bell, now head of Bell Aircraft Corp. When Fleet decided...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AIR: Builder of Big Ships | 11/17/1941 | See Source »

Hopes for a Yardling victory have taken a turn for the better with the return of several injured players to the fold in time for today's fray...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Captain Jack Fisher Ready to Play Against Slightly Favored Dartmouth Freshmen Today | 11/8/1941 | See Source »

...Repeated A.F. of L.'s command invitation to C.I.O. to return to the fold, blamed C.I.O. for the continued ruckus in labor's house...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: United Family | 10/27/1941 | See Source »

...Coach Swede Larson was worried as to whether or not he had a good team the reply was, "Yes, three of them." If Swede has three lines on a par with the one which has Giant Gene Flathmann, a Clemson transfer, at left tackle, then it's time to fold up and go home...

Author: By David B. Stearns, | Title: CRIMSON LEVELS ITS SIGHTS ON MIDDIES | 10/25/1941 | See Source »

...which with Swarthmore, Vassar, and Mt. Holyoke organizations forms the Student League for Progressive Action, will become the local chapter. The Student Defenders of Democracy and the Committee to Defend America will bring 90 chapters into the fold. All three groups have platforms which exactly parallel that of the HLU, so that the national program that will be decided upon next December 27 at the University of Michigan is easily predictable. It will be prolabor but anti-defense-strike, strongly outspoken for domestic democracy, but definitely interventionist and bitterly anti-Hitler. Non-interventionist liberals will not be excluded, however...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Student Liberalism Revived | 10/20/1941 | See Source »

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