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...announced selection of his strong-arm man: the Assistant Administrator in charge of compliance. He will be bald, stoutish Major Arthur L. Fletcher, 57, since 1933 North Carolina's commissioner of Labor, a War veteran lawyer who used to work in his State's tax division with Josiah Bailey, now a Senator. Major Fletcher's chief accomplishment, besides drafting labor laws hailed as models, and condemning "gypsy" factories which exploit communities briefly and then move on has been raising flowers (150 varieties) in his garden at Raleigh...
...Megiddo, the name by which the site is known to modern archeologists, guards the pass from Egypt through the Carmel ridge to the once-rich valleys of the Euphrates and Tigris. There, according to the Old Testament, "Pharoaohnechoh king of Egypt went up against the king of Assyria" and Josiah, in disguise, battled against him. * There Thutmose III of Egypt vanquished the rebellious King of Megiddo and his Asiatic allies, after a surprise movement of the Egyptian cavalry through the pass. There, during the World War, General Edmund Henry Hynman Allenby of Britain bested the Turks by repeating Thutmose...
...Warming to the heart of Franklin Roosevelt were words from Britain's cherubic economist, Josiah Stamp, newly created Lord Stamp of Shortlands, who landed in Manhattan last week "to find out what the length of your depression will be." Said Lord Stamp...
...committee that produced the report spent four years exploring the relation of emotion to learning. It had a grant from the Josiah Macy Jr. Foundation. Its chairman is husky, placid Professor Daniel Alfred Prescott, 40, of Rutgers University. A onetime Harvard teacher, Dr. Prescott is widely respected by educators for his tremendous research in sociology and psychology, is also an indefatigable stamp collector...
...opera was written in 1689 by Purcell and Josiah Priest for production by a girls' school. Hence the preponderance of ballet. "Purcell and Priest were an operatic team like Gershwin and--well like Gershwin," Canby explained...