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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Under a threatening midwest sky, he rode into Fulton, Mo. (pop. 8,300), in Westminster College's packed gymnasium delivered his speech and received his honorary LL.D. degree from President Franc L. McCluer...
...invoking the Railway Labor Act, appointing an emergency fact-finding board. But he resisted heavy pressures to intervene in the 16-week-old General Motors strike (see below). Following through on his plan to see labor leaders regularly, he talked long and (he reported) pleasantly with John L. Lewis and the A.F. of L.'s Carpenters' William L. Hutcheson...
...standings: House W L Leverett 4 0 Dunster 5 1 Kirkland 2 2 Lowell 2 3 Adams 1 3 Winthrop 1 3 Dudley 1 4 Navy W L Company 1 4 0 Company 3 3 1 Company 2 1 3 Weid...
Harried Headquarters. The goings-on in New Mexico were only a tiny part of the far-flung preparations. In Washington, mild-mannered L. A. Sawyer, technical director of Operation Crossroads, battled with a crushing schedule of planning and consultation. Many of his projects were still secret, and would remain so, but enough had been released about them to show the gigantic scope of the operation...
...first things he would learn would be the shrewd formula by which promotion-wise Larry Spivak has lifted the Mercury to 95,000 circulation, from the 33,000 to which it had sunk when Editor H. L. Mencken wearily stepped out in 1933. It had long since lost all the sudsy sarcasm it had under Mencken, was now an excitable cross between Reader's Digest and an exposé sheet. The Spivak formula: find a man with a promising cause, and exploit them both. Sample "discoveries...