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...townspeople of Fulton, Mo. (pop. 8,297) say there is no stopping "Bullet" McCluer. Short, jut-jawed, and effervescent, Franc Lewis McCluer has spent most of his 49 years in Fulton, as an undergraduate (class of '16), professor, and (for the past 13 years) president of tiny Presbyterian Westminster College. Bullet McCluer is a whirlwind of energy and salesmanship who earned his nickname, as an undergraduate, from the machine-gun force of his debating...
...President Clark, an ex-hog butcher, and his conservative fellow officers. They try to do the will of their tumultuous rank-&-file, keep the union's neck in and hold down its strong left wing (led by jut-jawed Director Herbert March of District 1), all at the same time...
...years it was closed by carpetbaggers, North Carolina has been a leading U.S. school, is now generally regarded as the outstanding state university in the South. The fact that its prestige is at its highest today is largely the result of one man: its tiny (5 ft. 5 in.), jut-jawed, 59-year-old eleventh president, Frank Porter Graham...
Emperor Hirohito and his Government, headed by jut-jawed Premier Prince Naruhiko Higashi-Kuni, were serving the Allies but were understandably nervous. Neither American use of the Imperial institution, nor Japanese reverence for it, necessarily required the indefinite presence of Hirohito himself. Jap and U.S. thoughts alike were much upon Hirohito's son, eleven-year-old Prince Akihito, and the Emperor's frail younger brother, Prince Chichibu, the logical (but not inevitable) choice for regent...
...OPAster Bowles got help from an unexpected source - dynamic, jut-jawed Ray Wright Turnbull, president of Edison General Electric Appliance Co. (Hotpoint ranges and heaters). In a cheerful statement. President Turnbull approved the new ceiling. Said he: "The company is willing to take its chances on this loss because it feels that within a short time the increased volume of domestic and foreign sales will more than offset the low selling prices and high production costs...