Word: marked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that, he has, like most of his fellow freshmen, already made his mark in the rough & tumble of practical politics. He Was twice mayor of Minneapolis, the man who helped put together Minnesota's humpty-dumpty Democratic-Farmer-Labor ticket, the clever and determined tactician who led and won the civil rights fight at the Democratic Convention last summer. One thing, above all, explains his way of thinking: all of his adult life has been spent in the era of Franklin Roosevelt. His dad, and the Dust Bowl taught him most of what he knows...
...turn the tide of the war in China, Bullitt said, requires American direction and control, exercised by "a fighting general of the highest qualities, with an adequate staff of able officers." He thought that General Douglas MacArthur could do the job quickest. But he also mentioned as prospects, General Mark W. Clark, and Lieut. Generals Albert C. Wedemeyer and J. Lawton Collins. He called for the revival of the volunteer "Flying Tigers," and urged Congress to appropriate $800,000,000 for China, chiefly in military...
Warm weather forced the HAA to shelve its plans for a freshman hockey game this week with St. Mark's. Because of heavy bookings at the Boston Arena, the game has been postponed indefinitely...
...racing enthusiast from boyhood, Sir Malcolm (King George V knighted him in 1931) tried bicycles, motorcycles and airplanes before turning to automobiles in 1910. Driving his famed "Bluebird" over the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah in 1935, he was the first to crack the five-mile-a-minute mark (he hit 301.1292 m.p.h.*); he switched to speedboats, and four years later, on Lake. Coniston, England, established a record 141.74 m.p.h., which has never been equaled...
...temperature is low enough, hockey Coach Stan Priddy's freshmen face off against St. Mark's today...