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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...M. Schuman faces exactly the same problems that defeated the Ramadier regime: a grossly inflated economy that has scaled prices fifty percent above normal with only a twenty-five percent wage increase and a suicidal factionalism among France's myriad political parties. To replace the vacuum that characterized Ramadier's ten months in power, Schuman proposes stringent budget supervision, a wholesale stabilization of national currency, and an all-out war against Communist-inspired strikes. His purely economic solutions can be effected through prudent government alone, but when M. Schuman intends to crush the present widespread strikes, he must deal with...
Newest members of the honorary scholastic society at the 'Cliffe are Eleanor M. Millard of Whitman Hall and Chicago, Marjory A. Reynolds of Briggs Hall and Lexington, Kentucky, Marilyn R. Starkman of Bertram Hall and Wakefield, and Ellen G. Stearns of Bertram Hall and Scarsdale, New York...
While John Ciardi, Briggs-Copeland Instructor in English Composition, heartily endorsed Henry A. Wallace as a candidate for President on a Democratic or third party ticket last night, Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. '38, Associate Professor of History, lashed out at the former Secretary of Commerce for his "cynical exploitation of the Roosevelt myth" in his attacks on the Truman administration...
...Manhattan last week, a check for $143,027,000 was handed to Robert M. Littlejohn, War Assets Administrator. It was the final payment on the most favorable war-surplus deal the Government had ever made, and it closed the books on the long, acrimonious controversy over disposal of the Big Inch pipelines...
Novelist Woodruff, whose real name is Philip Mason, worked as a civil servant in India for 20 years, ending up as Joint Secretary of the Defense Department from 1944 to this year. E. M. Forster's Passage to India (1924), a novel in which certain types of British officials were treated with an irony amounting to loathing, has evidently been on his mind. He writes, in his foreword: "Perhaps I have been lucky in the people I have known and the visitors who write books after a six months' stay have been unlucky." This mild slap...