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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ALBERT L. FURTH...
When ECAdministrator Paul Hoffman took on his big job last April, he promised that ECA would be run on a streamlined, businesslike basis. Last week he took a long step toward making that promise come true. Over the protests of offended career bureaucrats, he gave Comptroller Eric L. Kohler the go-ahead for a tough, continuous financial checkup...
Last fortnight, the Bishop of Trois-Rivières, Monsignor Georges Léon Pelletier, let it be known that he viewed such talk with alarm. In a letter to the city council he came out against mixed bathing, warned that "promiscuity of the sexes in scanty costume [is] a menace to chastity and purity." The council took up the question and split four and four. Mayor J. Arthur Rousseau, who had toured Canadian swimming pools and been shocked at what he saw, announced that he stood with the bishop. Then everybody got into the argument...
Born. To John L. Lewis Jr., M.D., 29, quiet surgeon-son of the unquiet U.M.W. boss, and Sophie Madler Lewis, M.D., 27, practicing physician before marriage: their second child, first son; in Baltimore. Name: undecided. Weight...
...strange and moving scene took place in a park at St. Thomas, in the Virgin Islands. Crowds of natives, "shaking and kissing my hands, some kneeling and weeping," gathered to say goodbye to Government Secretary Robert Morss Lovett.* Officially he had resigned. His boss, Interior Secretary Harold L. Ickes, had not wanted to fire him. But the Dies Committee had charged him with subversiveness and Communist sympathies. Lovett's real crime was old-fashioned liberalism. It made no real difference that the U.S. Court of Claims later called his dismissal "a shocking and outrageous injustice" and that...