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...Ohio nursing a sick brother, Robertson sold virtually everything the couple owned and gave the money to the poor. According to Robertson's 1972 autobiography, Shout It from the Housetops, the marriage went through a tense period before Dede showed "willingness to submit herself to my spiritual headship...
Sneath kept trying. To the master of another distinguished school he wrote: "You will doubtless remember old Tubby Sneath-well, it will give you a helluva shock, you old bounder, because last year I took the headship here . . . Listen, Stinker, quite seriously, Selhurst is having a beano for its 300th anniversary on June 19. Could you come down, old boy, and give us a sermon on the Sunday?" Returned the headmaster's secretary, on the distinguished man's behalf: "Obviously not meant...
...therefore, greatly indebted to my friend, the illustrious President of the United States, four times summoned by popular vote to the headship of the most powerful community in the world, for his definition of power politics. With that marvelous gift which he has of bringing troublesome issues down to earth and reducing them to the calm level of ordinary life, the President declared in his recent message to Congress that power politics was misuse of power. I am sure I can say . . . we are absolutely in agreement...
...Springs, Va., introduced his new Under Secretary to a press conference with a verbal bouquet. Smiling and with hands on the back of a chair in the familiar Hull manner, Ed Stettinius said: "This is the climax of my young career." The man who left a $100,000 headship of U.S. Steel to enter Government service, who was generally praised for his work as Lend-Lease Administrator (TIME, Oct. 4), now faced the toughest administrative job of his career. Largely in his hands was the direction of a maze of State Department activities which spread around the globe...
...reception on the eve of his departure from the headship of the Business School was tendered Wallace B. Donham last night by the staff of the school. Present was Dean Donald K. David, who becomes head of the school today...