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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...summer bachelor since his wife and daughter went back to Independence, Harry Truman took two nights off for stag parties. He attended a dinner for his old friend Leslie L. ("Biff") Biffle, secretary of the Senate, and went out to Washington's swank Burning Tree Country Club, where he was initiated as the club's newest member. Over the weekend he cruised down the Potomac...
Ernie King was opposed. It would take a hefty task force to move him (such as Navy Secretary Forrestal and President Truman combined), but such a task force was being assembled. One sparkplug of it was Assistant Secretary Artemus L. ("Di") Gates, who last week was boosted to Under Secretary, a spot in which he can make his voice heard. A thrice-decorated World War I pilot, "Di" Gates is a red-hot airman...
...busy CCF Government was achieving socialism by capitalistic methods. Four months ago it took over the Dominion Electric Power, Ltd. (13 plants in Saskatchewan, seven in other western provinces) by buying control for $450,000. Last week Provincial Treasurer Clarence M. Fines and Natural Resources Minister Joseph L. Phelps revealed the rest of the power play...
...from. Fiscal Policy for Full Employment, written by Dr. John H. G. Pierson of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, shows how in general the views of such laborites as Clinton S. Golden (United Steelworkers), Marion H. Hedges (Electrical Workers), James Carey (C.I.O.), David Kaplan (Teamsters), George Meany (A.F. of L.), Walter Reuther (Automobile Workers), et al., compare with those of such managers as Beardsley Ruml, H. Christian Sonhe, Charles E. Wilson...
Other living Kinsolving clergymen: Cousins Arthur Lee ("Little Tui"), popular youth leader and rector of Trinity Church, Princeton, N.J.; Charles J., rector of the Church of the Holy Faith, Santa Fe, N. Mex.; Walter Ovid, rector of Calvary Church, Summit, N.J.; Uncles Wythe L. and Arthur B., retired...