Word: jr
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...about it. Someone else, reading the story, might contribute a further step in the realization of the dream. But if that same engineer should write the "impossible" idea into a technical article, it probably would not be published, and if published, might mean his professional ruin . . . Louis E. GARNER JR. President...
...applauded vigorously; House Democrats pushed up to pump the hand of their new colleague. Eleanor Roosevelt sat beaming in the presidential gallery, remembering (she reported later) all the times she had watched her husband sworn in to public office. This time another Roosevelt-brawny, 34-year-old Franklin D. Jr.-had stepped onto the national political stage...
...Franklin Jr. had a well-prepared little statement for newsmen: "My only political intention is to represent my constituents of the 20th District of New York . . . I'm not a crystal-ball gazer, and therefore don't go any further than the immediate foreseeable future." Later, he went to the White House to assure President Truman of his loyalty. "We had a nice chat," reported Congressman Roosevelt. "I told him there was no question that I was a member of ... the team of which he was captain and quarterback." A reporter wanted to know if he felt...
Inis L. Claude, Jr. 2G of Conway, Arkansas, has won a Chase Prize for an essay entitled "The International Treatment of the Problem of National Minorities...
Unawarded this year were the Francis Boott Prize, the Circolo Italiano Prize, the John A. Walz, Jr. Prize, the Carl Schurz Prize, and the Susan Anthony Potter Prize in Spanish Literature...