Word: majorities
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Swimming coach Harold Ulen and World Figue Skating Champion Richard Button '52 were awarded special major letters yesterday by the Harvard Committee on the Regulation of Athletic Sports, Athletic Director William J. Bingham '16 announced last night...
...August, 1941, he entered the Navy as a public relations officer and was soon transferred to sea duty on the U.S.S. Enterprise. Four years aboard "The Big E," he saw it through almost every major Pacific naval campaign from Santa Cruz and Guadalcanal to the Gilberts and Marshalls. He was paid off in 1946 as the ship's First Lieutenant. Today, his ground-floor office at the northeast corner of Weld is still littered with books and documents about the war, which he is using in preparation of a pictures-and-text book commemorating the exploits and crew...
Smoked Out. Premier Queuille's government was aroused. The thoroughly anti-Communist Minister of Interior, Jules Moch, sent his political police out on a series of raids. The army intensified its loyalty screening of officers and soldiers, picked up a major and a captain on charges of trafficking in army documents...
...Major General William J. ("Wild Bill") Donovan, wartime boss of the OSS, announced in Los Angeles: "It's not a cold war. It's a damn...
...Chrysler was aware that competition was back with a vengeance. It planned to kick off its new models with the biggest advertising campaign in its history. Every major U.S. newspaper has been carrying full-page ads, and the splurge in Canada will be "the greatest ever conducted by a U.S. corporation." There, four major magazines will carry twelve-page color inserts. Said a Chrysler executive: "We are proceeding as if the buyer's market is already here...