Word: j
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...joshed photographers, shook hands all around, posed with all comers. Standing next to Acheson, he saw Vice President Barkley- drive up, announced briskly: "Here's the Veep," and pumped his hand. At the top of the ladder, Acheson turned and waved cheerily. "Bring home the bacon," shouted John J. McCloy, the new American High Commissioner in Germany. "Bon voyage" shouted Alben Barkley. Harry Truman looked at him in mock amazement. "What did you say?" he asked, then turned to look for French Ambassador Henri Bonnet. "Hey, Bonnet, this guy's trying to talk French," said Truman gleefully...
...after an hour-during which he was once forced to leave the bench to quiet the uproar-Medina consented to listen to a motion for acquittal based on whether the Justice Holmes doctrine of "clear and present danger" applied to the case (see above). Next day Defense Attorney Abraham J. Isserman argued, in effect, that the defendants were being denied "the right to engage in political activity...
Last winter, it came close. New York City's Board of Higher Education was ready to name Bryn J. Hovde, historian (The Scandinavian Countries), housing expert and head of Manhattan's New School for Social Research, to the $15,000-a-year job. But some Queens residents had a candidate of their own: Acting President Margaret V. Kiely. Others, including Brooklyn's Roman Catholic Tablet, attacked Hovde because he had been critical of the House Un-American Activities Committee, and had attended the Moscow-sponsored World Congress of Intellectuals in Breslau last summer (where...
Last week the board found its man. He was trim, 44-year-old John J. Theobald, dean of administration at Manhattan's City College for the last three years. Before that he had taught civil engineering at City College, supervised some highway surveys in New York State. Stepping into the Queens presidency after the past year's tumult and shouting didn't worry him; he called it "a perfectly wonderful opportunity." He thought he had been around the city's colleges long enough to know...
...married couples who are childless but want children, Anatomist Edmond J. Farris, head of Philadelphia's Wistar Institute, last week offered some advice on fertility. He told the American Urological Association's annual meeting in Los Angeles...