Word: master
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Council officials are still in hopes of the reinstatement of this privilege, however since it is known that at least one civilian House Master is in favor of it. The food situation constitutes the first student Council investigation this summer. Those Council members who served as the Council food sub-committee include William W. Dunn '46, Maurice M. Osborne '45, Robert W. Regan '46, Paul D. Tibbetts '45, and Ellison...
...work of Jack Reichart in a master of ceremonies capacity was one of the more professional contributions of the evening, and H. F. Donaldson's piano renditions as a warmer-upper were really good. The squirrelly skit by C. E. Weilepp, C. J. Patterson and J. L. Vlahos was a gem in itself, and appreciated as such...
State Made of Citizens. A world government, to be strong in its own right, would have to be the master of its members. It would have to be granted by the separate nations a sizable chunk of their sovereignty. It would have to be able to deal directly with people-to tax them, jail them, regulate them, protect them. It would have to be a federation, a genuine union...
Thus a confederation is forever the creature, never the master of its members. It amounts to little more than an intricately formulated war-&-peace alliance. Its fatal flaw is that its strength is entirely borrowed-and on a demand note at that-from the nations that compose it. Either it acts as a vigilante committee for its strong members or, as in the case of the League, it does...
...archtypical Hollywoodman, John Decker, 47, was born in San Francisco. In his young manhood he appeared briefly on the stage, remembers playing a part in a Maxwell Bodenheim-Ben Hecht playlet called Master Poisoners. When his theatrical career flopped, he launched himself as an independent artist by cleverly copycatting famed portraits in which he substituted the face of his current sitter. Decker's first work of this kind was an "old master" portrait of divinely crosseyed Comedian Ben Turpin. Then he painted Charlie Chaplin in the style of twelve old & new masters including Frans Hals, Picasso, Howard Chandler Christy...