Word: formerly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...last week, as Julian Wadleigh, former State Department employee, took the stand, an air of excitement and tension finally came to the courtroom. It was a big moment for Claude Cross, the shrewd, quiet Boston lawyer who had succeeded posturing, lionlike Lloyd Paul Stryker as defense counsel for Hiss. Cross had contended in his opening statement that Wadleigh, and not Alger Hiss, had stolen the famed Pumpkin Papers...
...Lose or Choose. Australia's new Prime Minister would be the Liberals' Robert Gordon Menzies, 55, an urbane lawyer and veteran politician. Out of government leadership and onto the Opposition bench goes Labor's Joseph Benedict Chifley, 64, a dignified, pipe-smoking former locomotive engineer with a talent for playing the ponies (Australia is a horse-happy land...
...Jack" Lang, charged sensationally that Chifley himself once lent money at rates up to 9%. Labor's embarrassed leader said it was true-only he had invested the money for proletarian friends and neighbors, taken nothing for himself. At his final rally, shirtsleeved Premier Chifley mixed with former railway cronies, reminded hard-drinking Australians how Labor had relaxed the closing time for pubs: "Remember how pubkeepers had to keep cockatoos to warn them when cops were coming...
...audience of over 500 at Cambridge High and Latin heard former Federal Communication Commission Chairman James L. Fly, LL.B. '26, writer-director Norman Corwin, and commentator Quincy Howe '21, emphasize the need for radio to change its ways...
Fine Arts offers the best example of the opposite trend. Before the war, Fine Arts averaged 2.7 percent of all concentrators; for the past three years it has averaged .9 percent, a decline to one third its former size. But it has nine full and associate professors, just as it did ten years...