Word: graded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...over a general store in Owosso, Mich.) Ancestry: the only child of George Martin Dewey, publisher of the Owosso Times and later postmaster of Owosso;* grandson of George Martin Dewey, one of the founders of the G.O.P. in Michigan; a fifth cousin of Admiral George Dewey. Educated: Owosso grade and high schools, University of Michigan (1923), Columbia University Law School (1925). Married: in 1928, to Frances Eileen Hutt of Sapulpa, Okla., daughter of a railroad brakeman, a onetime singer in a road company of George White's Scandals. Children: Thomas Jr., 15; John, 12. Church: Episcopalian. Nickname...
...Fifth-Grade Arithmetic. To most Washington officials, Bob Lovett is the near-perfect example of the perfect executive. He made his mark in the business world. He succeeded so well during the war as Assistant Secretary of War for Air that ex-Secretary Robert Patterson once remarked: "The fact that our Air Forces achieved their huge expansion in time was due more to Bob Lovett than to any other...
Since he came back to Washington, Lovett has even wrung some words of praise from New York's terrible-tempered Congressman John Taber, the brass-lunged dragon of Capitol Hill. Said Taber: "He makes sense. Understands fifth-grade arithmetic. Very rare in Washington...
...challenging voice last week. It called for "well-educated young men who are willing to take off their coats and learn an exciting trade. Work arduous, filthy; you will be frozen to death in winter and roasted in summer. But the pay is good, and those who make the grade will have a job for life, with every opportunity to climb to a good position. . . . There is no reason why we can't have men who talk like Socrates and work like Hercules...
What does the University stand to lose by its economy, aside from the field of Geography itself? Geography is not, as some geologists believe, a grade school subject. It is a field for research experts, and the Regional Studies Program started last year depends as much on those experts in Geography as in History, Economics, or Government. The Program has been fortunate, as has the Department itself, in having the services of Mr. Ackerman, one of the country's leading experts on the human geography of the Far East. He was granted a leave of absence to head the survey...