Word: mcnamara
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...happy husband and father, when the normal domestic claims have not taken the sting out of Papa Goebbels or made of Papa Goring the ideal Santa Claus for 1938. Sorry, girls, but when it comes to dictators, you just don't seem to make much headway. EDWARD T. MCNAMARA...
...weakest side is its picture of Steffens himself. There are great gaps in it, years passed over in silence. What was Steffens' real connection with the McNamara dynamiting case? What part did he actually play on his mysterious visit to Russia in 1917? And was he as deeply involved in world affairs as he claimed? Last week a two-volume edition of his letters answered these questions and many more. Covering the period from 1889 to his death in 1936, they give a better characterization of Steffens than he was able to evoke in all his perplexed self-probing...
...Although McNamara bitterly denounced the "adolescent intelligence of the students" and stressed the "seriousness of the Council's proposal" for a separate Harvard municipality, his speech was apparently taken as a joke by the packed galleries. "He just wants to get his picture in the American," said...
...McNamara was pretty sore at one prank, he declared. "My home was visited, apparently by Harvard students, and they left a little black and white animal in a box. I am asking Postmaster Tague to investigate all those pranks...
...cracks at Granville Hicks that have been accompanying all recent Council meetings were not absent last night. McNamara quoted from some Communistic literature announcing Hicks as a speaker at the forthcoming rally of that party and bellowed at the top of his lungs...