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...many votes as the combined total of the next two men on the list-Sir Winston Churchill and General Douglas MacArthur. Other high-ranking also-rans: Harry S. Truman, Adlai E. Stevenson, Bishop Fulton J. Sheen, Elder Statesman Bernard Baruch, Pope Pius XII and former President Herbert Hoover. A newcomer among the top ten: Wisconsin's U.S. Senator Joseph R. McCarthy, who ranked seventh...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: OPINION: he Most Admired | 1/4/1954 | See Source »

Maas, an authority on the administrative processes of government and the conservation of natural resources, has been associated with various governmental conservation agencies. He was the director of a conservation survey unit for both the Massachusetts and Connecticut "Little Hoover" Commissions...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Maas and Ulam Made Associate Professors | 1/4/1954 | See Source »

...Mexico's Patrick Jay Hurley, onetime (1902-07) Indian-fighting cavalryman and much later U.S. Secretary of War (under Herbert Hoover), is a man who can lose battles and still keep on trying to win the war. Three times (1946, 1948, 1952) he has tried to win a seat in the U.S. Senate, and each time he has failed. Last year, after Democratic Senator Dennis Chavez defeated him by only 5,375 votes, Republican Hurley cried fraud, contested the election, got the U.S. Senate to order an investigation. Last week, more than 13 months after the balloting, Pat Hurley...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: Old Cavalrymen Never Quit | 12/28/1953 | See Source »

...month job as a draftsman for the Standard Oil Co. (New Jersey) to the $1500,000-a-year board chairmanship, announced his retirement. To avoid being "just another guy on the street," Abrams laid plans to keep busy by: 1) taking an assignment with the new Hoover Commission to streamline federal civil service. 2) helping to raise funds for colleges (he founded the Council for Financial Aid to Education...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PERSONNEL: Changes of the Week, Dec. 28, 1953 | 12/28/1953 | See Source »

Eastern Michigan: luncheon Dec. 31 in Detriot with Coach Lloyd Jordan speaking at the Veterans Hospital. Contact David C. Crawford, 20263 Hoover; Minnesota: Dec. 22 cocktail-buffet party before the Harvard-Minnesota hockey game at Minnespolis. Albert L. Haman Ill 1640 Northwestern Bang Bldg.; Nebraska: Dec. 23 Luncheon at the Omaha Club, Omaha. Russell Bowie, Jr., 808 City National Bank Bldg...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Alumni Plan Festivities | 12/16/1953 | See Source »

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