Word: l
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...James Forrestal. The best bets to fill two of the new subordinate secretaryships: for Air, Yaleman W. Stuart Symington, now Assistant Secretary of War for Air, socialite, industrialist and son-in-law of New York's military-wise Congressman James W. Wadsworth; for Navy, handsome Under Secretary John L. Sullivan, New Hampshire lawyer and faithful Democrat, who got his Washington start in the Bureau of Internal Revenue...
...Mothers Tremble! When they heard that, the French promptly raised the roof, almost threatened to sabotage the Paris conference. The Communists, who know that French fear of Germany could wreck the conference, hastened to aggravate these fears; L'Humanité cried: "Let French Mothers Again Tremble...
Joining Page in the protest were Richard Bobear '50, James L. Elam '50, James W. Kuhn '50, and Frank E. Fite, Jr. '50, who asked for new rooms while the work was in progress...
Died. Herbert L. Satterlee, 83, patriarchally handsome son-in-law and biographer of the late J. P. Morgan Sr.,* Assistant Secretary of the Navy under Theodore Roosevelt, onetime president of the Union League Club and longtime Manhattan corporation lawyer and social figure; by his own hand (pistol); in Manhattan...
...played an active role in the French underground after his release from a German prison camp. His play, Les Mouches (The Flies), produced during the occupation, was an eloquent plea for freedom cloaked in a classic Greek legend. Sartre also found time to write a 700-page theoretical treatise, L'Etre et le Néant (Being and Nothingness...