Word: jameses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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¶ Instructed Labor Secretary James Mitchell to sound out industry and union leaders on a labor-management conference suggested by A.F.L.-C.I.O. President George Meany to study ways of forestalling costly strikes.
Six-County Empire. Attorney General (later Governor) James Allred spotted Freshman Legislator Anderson as a promising young man, lifted him out of the legislature to serve as assistant attorney general. Moving along fast, Anderson became state tax commissioner at 24, head of the state unemployment commission at 26. In 1937...
The relationship was sharply tested in his first big battle after taking over as Treasury Secretary: his quiet campaign in early 1958 to head off both Republicans and Democrats who wanted to try to cure the recession by cutting taxes. Within the Administration, Vice President Richard Nixon and Labor Secretary...
James Claude Thomson Jr., Yale '53, a distinguished past Chairman of the News in its daily days, seemed to speak for many when he observed recently, "We used to have a paper down there at the OCD. Now that that's gone, what is there?"
"The danger of this middle culture," he said, "is that it may permanently debase our standards, as the revised Standard Bible has replaced the King James Version." MacDonald attacked J.B. for its "mid cult approach," which mixes dramaturgy, the Bible, and melodrama to produce a play that "works twice as...