Word: membered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week, 58-year-old Leland Olds found these old words still echoing in the ears of Congress. In the years since, he had risen to a position of power. As the dominant member of the Federal Power Commission for the past ten years, he had toughened Government regulation of utilities, helped cut wholesale natural gas and electricity rates by $40.6 million a year, successfully fought legislation to exempt the rich natural-gas business from federal control. In short, he had made himself the power lobby's No. 1 candidate for political electrocution...
Died. William Larimer Mellon, 81. multimillionaire banking and oil tycoon and member of the famed Mellon family (his uncle, Andrew W. Mellon, was onetime Secretary of the Treasury, his cousin is Banker Richard King Mellon-TIME. Oct. 3); in Pittsburgh. He helped organize Gulf Oil Corp. in 1907, developed it into the world's fourth largest oil producer (total assets...
...Sally Drew Hall, Radcliffe '01, died last Saturday at her home in Hanover, N.H. She was a trustee of Radcliffe College and a member of many social and civic organizations...
Despite the pre-game weeping from the Point, Army expected to win the Michigan game. "In spite of what our press releases said, we thought we had a good chance to win the game," said backfield coaching staff member Doug Kenna on Sunday. "Everybody did all we expected, and some of them a lot more...
Under the old system, when a student applied for a job, he wrote what he wanted to do on a card and a member of the Employment Office staff called up anybody he thought might supply a job of that sort...