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...Sabbath in Jerusalem was clear and sunny. About 40 British officers and their guests lunched at Goldsmith House, the three-story officers' club on King George Avenue. Afterwards, half a dozen went to the roof for sun baths; some retired for siestas. The rest left. Sir Henry Gurney, Chief Secretary of the Palestine Government, kept a golf date...
...Republican leaders. It might mean lopping some $2 billion from War and Navy Department budgets. Secretary Patterson said this would cripple the Army; Secretary Marshall said it would cripple the occupation of Germany and Japan; Secretary Forrestal said it would cripple the Navy. South Dakota's Chan Gurney, chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, agreed with the Cabinet members...
Started by Donald B. Watt from the Gurney School in Vermont, the experiment has been in operation for 10 years and according to their circular, it has helped at least 1600 American students to make friends in other countries...
...effort to kill the Hicken-looper Amendment to the Full-Employment Bill, he would head one of the Senate's most influential groups. The price of Republican victory in the Senate would also mean the assumption of the Naval Affairs Committee chairmanship by South Dakota's Chan Gurney. Gurney, whose record includes supporting a labor draft, crippling of the Bretton Woods Agreement, and maintaining high tariffs, would replace present chairman Elbert Thomas of Utah, an outstanding progressive...
Editors like Gurney Williams consider Gardner Rea, veteran of 37 years in the business, and Virgil Partch, a comparative newcomer, two of the top artists in the country. (But Peter Arno gets top pay. When he bothers to turn out a cartoon the price is reputed to be $1,000.) Partch, no Wednesday go-to-market man, lives in North Hollywood, Calif., has never been east of New Mexico, tells editors he can make his characters just as gruesome in the West as he could in New York...