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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...EMMA J. GIFFEN...
...bald, ruddy lawyer, a wealthy Omaha Democrat-and the third man considered for the job. Harry Truman had wanted North Carolina's Jonathan Daniels, whose father had been Woodrow Wilson's Navy Secretary. Daniels didn't want the job. Democratic National Committee Chairman J. Howard McGrath had his own candidate -his friend, Judge Robert Quinn of Rhode Island. But Secretary of Defense Louis Johnson didn't want Quinn. In raising funds for Harry Truman's campaign, Johnson had got a good look at Frank Matthews and liked what...
...born (1892) in Coytesville, N J., of Dutch stock. When he was a baby, his family moved to Florida, where his father was a pioneer railroad promoter and financier. He had a healthy, uneventful outdoor childhood, played football as a halfback at West Point (classmates remember him particularly as being "good on the defensive"), was graduated 92nd out of 168 in the star-studded class of 1915, whose roster included names like Ike Eisenhower (class standing: 61) and Omar Bradley (44). In World War I, he went to France as an infantry major. Between wars, he taught infantry tactics...
...spite of the pressures of reading period and the temptations of Lamont's open shelves, the new library has not been losing an abnormal number of volumes to student book thieves, librarian Philip J. McNiff reported last night...
Lamont Library will probably not stay open for the summer session, Herbert J. Spire '50, chairman of the Student Council Library Committee, reported last night...