Word: leveler
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Gradually, the spirit of top-level efficiency and teamwork has seeped down through the Justice Department ranks. "I think the Attorney General should get a Medal of Honor," says a U.S. attorney some 500 miles from Washington. "He's got us all feeling a certain pride in what we do." Another U.S. attorney's praise is the more meaningful because he frankly thinks Brownell is a cold fish ("I saw him get stewed once-but with dignity"). Says he: "Brownell has imbued the men surrounding him with the idea that there, is a great job to be done...
...evening of September 25, 1933, 13 men sat down to dinner in two stately, oak-panelled rooms in Eliot House to initiate a venture into, "social experience at an intellectual level," Next fall in the same rooms the venture will begin anew, for the twenty-fifth time. The faces will be different, and there will be more of them--about thirty now--but the fundamental purpose and structure of the Society of Fellows will be the same...
...principles around which the Society was originally built--those of economic security and "social experience at an intellectual level"--remain substantially intact today...
...from 56? to $1.13 a share) on a sales increase of 93%. The Union Pacific Railroad Co. increased its profits from 67? a share to 73?, and Northern Pacific Railway profits rose from 54? to 73?. Earnings of Mack Trucks, Inc. rose 33% above the 1956 first-quarter level (from 89? to $1.18 a share...
Died. George Rublee, 88, international lawyer, adviser to Presidents Wilson, Coolidge. Hoover and Roosevelt, whose last high-level public service-arranging emigration and resettlement of Jews from Nazi Gerrnany-was frustrated by the outbreak of war; in Manhattan...