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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Then came the thunderclap. On the eve of the 1940 Republican Convention, Franklin Roosevelt appointed Republican Henry L. Stimson to head the War Department, Republican Frank Knox to be Secretary of the Navy. The move had obvious political advantages to Roosevelt, but he was also mindful of Hitler's sweep through Europe, and wanted the services of Stimson and Knox. It would be hard to tell who was angrier: the Republicans or Johnson. But he was still nursing another ambition: to be Vice President. Two weeks after the first blow fell he was shunted aside again at the Democratic...
Quite early in its history, the Clinic began the practice of inviting visiting dignitaries and distinguished men from the University to come for the 40-cent lunch and talk with the staff. Julian Huxley, H. L. Mencken, and the psychologist Carl Jung are among the diverse visitors the Clinic has had. The late Robert Benchley also came. He arrived in the middle of the joke experiment. Benchley showed great interest in all the apparatus used to measure a person's internal and external responses to the jokes, and in a few weeks the Clinic staff was reading an elaborate parody...
...completely false. The committee also found itself beseiged with messages venching for Mr. Cohen--messages from its own philosophy, physics, and English departments, and from professors at Wesleyan University, where Mr. Cohen had been offered a job but had turned it down to try for the Yale position. Victor L. Butterfield, President of Wesleyan, personally telephoned President Seymour of Yale to register his protest...
Other newly-elected officers are: first vice-president, Calvert Magruder, LL.B. '16 of Cambridge, Judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit; second vice-president, Monte L. Lemann '03, LL.B. '06 of New Orleans, Louisiana; secretary, C. Tracy Barnes LL.B. '37, of Providence, Rhode Island; treasurer, Paul F. Hellmuth LL.B. '43 of Boston; and assistant treasurer and secretary, Harrison S. Dimmitt, LL.B. '25 of Cambridge...
...Reilly 1 1 0 0 .000 0 0 0 0 0 .000 Lucas 5 0 0 0 .000 0 0 1 0 1 .500 -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- TOTALS 16 545 73 139 .255 62 16 443 178 40 .939 Pitching PLAYER G IN H R ER ERAVG HR BB SO WP W L PCT Clay 1 6 1 4 4 6.00 0 9 9 0 1 0 1.000 Godin 11 88 1/2 60 29 10 1.02 1 55 105 1 4 5 .444 Turner 7 54 51 27 15 2.50 2 17 20 1 3 3 .500 Hymans...