Word: l
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...work together smoothly. Byrnes knows Washington and contemporary U.S. Government as few men do-he has been a Representative, Senator, Supreme Court Justice and "Assistant President" to Franklin Roosevelt. Harry Truman might have wished for a man with greater experience in foreign affairs-perhaps a 20-year-younger Henry L. Stim-son-but in Byrnes he got the other qualities he wanted...
...Edgar L. Rachlin, Standish...
This evening, at 7.30 o'clock, a reception for all new students in the Kirkland Common Room will be addressed by Paul H. Buck, Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Willard L. Sperry, Dean of the Divinity School, and Richard M. Gummere, Chairman of the Committee on Admission. Delmar Leighton '17, Dean of Freshmen, Dr. Arlie V. Bock, Henry K. Oliver Professor of Hygiene, and Keyes D. Metcalf, Director of the University Library, will speak at the required meeting for new students in New Lecture Hall tomorrow morning...
...Harold L. Ickes, irritated by new rumors of his impending resignation as Secretary of the Interior, spelled out the situation in his own sweet way: 1) he had offered his resignation when President Truman took office; 2) all told, he had submitted at least six resignations; 3) two different names that had been mentioned as his successor's were both right, because "it takes two men to do this job." Concluded terrible-tempered Harold Ickes: "Even Methuselah had a successor...
...bold, hard, mechanistic abstraction hot off the easel of expatriate Frenchman Fernand Léger-The Great Julie, painted...