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Neither Daddy nor Mammy. The Senate had approached the matter grudgingly. Majority Leader Scott Lucas, doggedly vowing to make good on Harry Truman's civil rights program, had made FEPC the next order of business, had then let an easygoing Southern filibuster jog along for most of two weeks...
Surrounded by a hale of non-partisan backing, possible economy in executive expenditures, and progress, most of the plans seemed certain of passage. In fact, Congress took no action until May 10. Then Senator Taft attacked the most vulnerable of the proposals, No. 12, which would have abolished the office...
On the same day, the Senate also killed the President's Treasury plan, which would have further centralized that department's administration under its secretary. Both a banker's association and Secretary Snyder opposed the plan, and even Lucas and Floor Leader Myers voted against it.
When pretty, brown-haired Martha Lucas, 37, resigned as President of Sweet Briar College for women (TIME, Oct. 17), she caught the colonnaded Virginia campus a bit off guard. Nevertheless, the trustees set right to work hunting for a successor. Judging by their choice last week, they had apparently kept...
The new president is pretty, brown-haired Anne Gary Pannell, 39, the mother of two sons. Southern-born (in Durham, N. C.), like her predecessor, she went to Oxford for her doctorate in history (Martha went to the University of London), eventually became academic dean of Baltimore's Goucher...