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Batterman, a member of the national championship Ohio State swimming teams of 1942 and 1943, was named to the All-American team in 1944, a year in which he won all major springboard fancy diving titles. He received a B.S. degree from Ohio State in 1943 and holds an M.A. from Columbia...
Robert Butler, Ambassador to Cuba. Butler is a St. Paul shipbuilder, banker and construction man, and a longtime Democratic moneyman. Appointed Ambassador to Australia in 1946, he was moved to Cuba in 1948, served as a member of Johnson's fund-raising committee. He gave the legal maximum, $5,000. Other contributors from the diplomatic service: former Ambassador to Brazil William Pawley ($5,000); Ambassador to Argentina James Bruce and wife ($4,000) ; Ambassador to Canada Laurence A. Steinhardt and daughter ($10,000); EGA Ambassador W. Averell Harriman ($5,000); former Under Secretary Will Clayton and wife...
Curtis Colder, member of Louis Johnson's party finance committee, board chairman of Electric Bond & Share, and longtime business associate of Floyd Odium (Calder was president of American & Foreign Power from 1927 to 1944). His $3,000 check for the party arrived Nov. 22, 1948, nearly three weeks after Truman's victory. The President offered to make him Secretary of the Army; he refused...
...Church World Service, an overseas relief agency for 20 Protestant and three Eastern Orthodox denominations, took a decisive step to make up the deficit: it launched a campaign to arouse Protestant interest in the plight of Europe's homeless. Designating June as "D.P. Action Month," C.W.S. asked each member church to join in furnishing the assurance of job, housing and transportation from port of arrival which the law requires before D.P.s can embark for America. For June C.W.S. set its goal at 18,000 new "assurances," more than fivefold the 3,340 it has received in the last eight...
...January 1945, Kruger called the first meeting of "Possibilities Unlimited," dedicated to the principle of dispensing with public sympathy and showing how well amputees can get on without it. Now the organization has 532 members in Cleveland (200 of them veterans) and some 1,500 more throughout the U.S. Possibilities Unlimited has employed some of the techniques of Alcoholics Anonymous. When it hears of someone who has just had an amputation, it sends a member to visit him in the hospital, and offer practical advice; so far as possible the visitor is chosen to match the patient in age, general...