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...genial president, accompanied by Jim Grisham, was there seeing that the wheels were well oiled--always an eye for his responsibilities. Harry Magnuson is that sort of guy. They went from the dance to the Essex for more adventures 'til Harry finally was worn out and started dozing. It's reported that this ended the evening...
President Harry Magnuson is slowly coordinating opinion and plans for a dance of our own to be held sometime within the next three pre-exam weeks. He would like to hear any suggestions from members of the class...
...story," Magnuson said, "is circulating in Washington. D.C., and on the Pacific Coast. I don't know if it is true, but it should be answered." Promptly and frigidly, the State Department answered it with a complete denial...
Ever since Pearl Harbor, many a U.S. citizen has wondered why the fleet was bottled up, in port, on Dec. 7, an easy target for the Jap bombers. Last week a yellow-haired New Deal Congressman, Warren G. Magnuson, suggested an answer which might have come straight out of the pages of Dr. Fu Manchu-the Japanese, said he, had "made a patsy" out of the State Department. Special Envoy Saburo Kurusu, the story went, had complained to Cordell Hull that the far-ranging activity of the U.S. Navy gave Japanese militarists a chance to block his efforts at preserving...
...Magnuson story was only another manifestation of unanswered U.S. suspicions that the Pearl Harbor affair may disclose skeletons in Washington closets. The feeling had been, heightened by Rear Admiral Husband E. Kimmel's reply to a Collier's article by Senator Harry Truman (TIME, Aug. 28). Truman charged that Army and Navy commanders in Hawaii had failed to cooperate, implied that both were heavily responsible...