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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...China for the next 50 years." At week's end the General took off on a 12,000-mile hop to Washington. There he would tell President Truman and Congress how the U.S. could provide concrete assistance to China in her critical months. The principal item on his list of recommendations would be a generous loan to help finance China's reconstruction...
Bell's stock list for the Nascopie this year, radioed out of the north two months ago, occupies four closely typed long sheets. Items: tinted sun goggles, dolls, Florida water, girls' ski slacks, sewing machines, jew's-harps, thousands of pounds of plug tobacco, spruce poles for spear handles, blubber lamps...
Graduate veterans seeking peacetime employment have occupied their efforts to date. Teele, however, who will present a report to Provost Buck this spring, hopes to expand the present mailing list, and eventually to contact all interested students before they reach senior standing...
...Drinking with the boys" topped the list of blights on marital bliss. "Other women" ran a weak fifth, behind such minor vices as failure to bring home a box of candy, or a tendency to domineer. "Ashes on the rug" was a surprising last...
Before leaving Washington, the President had bustled pleasantly through an unusual list of social engagements. He invited himself to a lunch given by Senate Secretary Leslie Biffle, ate three bowls of chile. He spent an hour at a cocktail party thrown by Commodore James K. Vardaman Jr., his naval aide and nominee for the Federal Reserve Board. At week's end he dined at the Statler with the White House Correspondents' Association, and laughed good-naturedly at a skit parodying the tune: I'm Just Wild About Harry...