Word: membered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When Julius Albert Krug was called in to replace terrible-tempered Harold Ickes as Secretary of the Interior, there seemed no limits to the glistening future of the Wisconsin wonder boy. Behind him was an impressive record of public service as a member of the Wisconsin Public Service Commission, manager of TVA's power operations, head of the War Production Board. At 38, he was the youngest officer in the Cabinet, a hard-driving New Dealer who quickly mastered Interior's operations and spent at least half of his time in the field, brushing up on department problems...
Next day, after a friendly exchange of letters with the man who had served him longer (44 months) than any other member of the Cabinet, Harry Truman picked as Krug's successor a man who fitted an increasingly familiar pattern of presidential appointments. Like Agriculture Secretary Charles Brannan (a fellow Coloradan) and Postmaster General Jesse Donaldson, 53-year-old Oscar Littleton Chapman was a longtime career man in his department...
...Comparative Literature Department, will moderate the program which treats the question, "Do we need a college theater?" Panel speakers will include Miss Helen Maud Cam, professor of History; professor F. O. Matthiessen of the English Department; Miss Rosamond Gilder, secretary of the American National Theater and Academy, member of the New York Drama Critics Circle, and former editor of the American Theater Arts Monthly; Rudolph Elie, critic and columnist for the Boston Herald; Frank Day Tuttle, professor of Drama at Smith College; and Jerry Kilty of the Brattle Theater Company, formerly with Harvard Theater Workshop...
...corporation went to work right away with the appointment of a three man Committee on the Selection of a President, headed by Irving S. Olds Y '07, member of the corporation and chairman of the board of directors of United States Steel. This committee's recommendation will go to the full corporation for a vote...
While some opinion sees heads of various preparatory schools around New England as possible choices, practically only one present university officer is mentioned as a logical candidate: Morris Hadley Y '16, member of the corporation and a New York corporation lawyer...