Word: membered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Harry Truman thanked the people who arranged the breakfast for placing "Steamboat" Johnson behind a pillar "where he couldn't see me." From behind the pillar Steamboat-Interstate Commerce Commissioner J. Monroe Johnson, an honorary member of Battery D-piped up: "If you think we did something for you in Washington last time [at the Battery D Inauguration-Day breakfast], just wait until the next time Captain Harry is President and see what we can do." Startled, Harry Truman laughed. "All those newsmen," he cautioned, "will think it's a plant...
...that the contest was rather exciting for the first few minutes, but I was forced to add: "When you've seen them chase up and down the court once, you've seen the whole game." An old gentleman (whom I later discovered to be a prominent Boston Harvard Club member) overheard my remark, called some attendants, and had me escorted to the exit of the arena...
Died. Fernando de los Rios Urruti, 69, Socialist cabinet member and a founder of the Second Spanish Republic (1931-39); after long illness; in Manhattan. Following the bloodless overthrow of King Alfonso XIII (April 1931), De los Rios, as Minister of Justice, started a reform program (to break up the aristocracy's large land holdings) and tried unsuccessfully to separate church and state. As Ambassador to the U.S. (1936-39), he fought for U.S. aid to Republican Spain, went into exile when Franco won the Civil...
Before the war, Gordon worked about nine months with the National Resources Planning Board on water and power resources. During the war, he was with the War Production Board, ending in 1945 as program vice-chairman. In the latter half of 1946, he was a member of the U.S. delegation on the UN Atomic Energy Commission...
Other affirmative ballots were limited to permitting only acknowledged Party members, while still others asked for outlawing of such persons, at the same time permitting all others to hold jobs. One Faculty member objected to avowed party members on the grounds that "the Communist party does not stand for Communism...