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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Dean Bender, who had earlier given support to the proposal in a conversation with Council President Robert L. Fischelis '49, a member of the joint committee, last night said that his approval of the new plan in no way indicated that he favored abolition of the "all-Harvard" rule...
...election, Prime Minister Louis St. Laurent, 67, the courtly onetime Quebec corporation lawyer, would head the Liberals. As a party leader, he had already given a good account of himself in Parliament, had proved adept in the rough & tumble of political infighting. Moreover, he had won the admiration of his followers. Toward him they felt an almost paternal protectiveness. "We've got to win this one for Uncle Louis," they said...
...election would also test George Drew's leadership of Canada's chief opposition party, the Progressive Conservatives. When Parliament was dissolved last week, the Progressive Conservatives (Tories) held 69 of the House's 245 seats against 125 for the Liberals. Last January George Drew, 55, had given up the premiership of Ontario to become the Tory leader. In the federal Parliament he had been an outspoken, hard-hitting member. He had made things hum in the House, had thrown his party into high gear...
...punch anybody. I did not jump or step on Fred Boysen ... If I had done any of those things ... I would have walked right up to Horace Stoneham and [resigned] . . . because I know that I would be through with 'baseball." Leo said he had merely given a shove to somebody who came up behind him and who, he thought, was trying to grab...
...million ton-miles last year. The potential amount of U.S. air freight, said CAB last week, is more than one billion ton-miles per year, or more than eight times as much as all airlines are now hauling. The cargo lines had promised they would develop the business if given the chance. Now it was up to them to make good...