Word: meritable
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...other business?" queried Sandler. "I have some housekeeping matters." He then referred to the agenda and asked members for their lists of men who should get Associated Council Membership Cards or Certificates of Merit. "I never got an agenda," complained Cabot. Sandler explained just what he wanted, and there followed brief discussion of forthcoming reports and whether Dean Bender will still eat Wednesday lunch with the Council...
...beachhead assaults; on Okinawa, Major General Shepherd led his 6th Marine Division to its objective early, wheeled, and lent a much-needed hand in the bitter street fighting for Naha, the capital city. In World War II he picked up two D.S.M.s, two Legions of Merit and a fourth Purple Heart. Postwar: Spent four years as C.O., first at the Amphibious Training School at Little Creek, Va., then at the Marine Corps Schools at Quantico, Va. In 1947 was called to Washington, in line for the job of Commandant with his friend, Clifton Gates. Gates, also the possessor...
...Abolition by law of chain newspapers might have some merit," Erwin D. Canham, editor of the Christian Science Monitor, agreed. The other speaker, John H. Thomson, vice-president of the New England Newspaper Guild, said that harmful press censorship could also arise from business and advertising interests of the newspapers...
Memorial Hall, that great, disputed, stranded galleon of the Harvard state celebrates its 75th birthday this year. Once described as "the most frightening building in greater Boston," praised as a "great, bristling brick Valhalla," it has served generations of Harvard men in its multiplicity of function regardless of architectural merit...
...Tory Party's "Young Turks," Churchill had a handful of lesser, though worthy, plums. The best: John Selwyn Lloyd, 47, a World War II brigadier who won the U.S. Legion of Merit, was made right bower to Anthony Eden with the title "Minister of State, Foreign Office." The most talked about young Tory, gentleman-farmer David Eccles, 47, after waiting nervously for a week while 32 other jobs were filled, was made Minister of Works...