Word: minors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Suddenly the slumbering Senate Committee on Foreign Relations lurched out of its doze. Fortnight ago its Chairman, Tom Connally, a minor statesman from Texas, announced that the Committee would do nothing about the Fulbright Resolution or any other postwar resolution. But energetic Senator Joseph Ball, of B 2 H 2 ,* now threatened: unless the Committee acted in "a reasonable time" (say, 30 days), he would force a showdown by tacking that Resolution on to some bill. Newspapers hammered away at the Committee, and Committee members found stacks of angry letters on their desks. Franklin Roosevelt, who shows no desire...
...biggest U.S. firm of efficiency experts, Chicago's George S. May Co., passed a minor milestone. In Manhattan's Chanin Building, where once it could not pay its office rent, the May Co. opened an entire floor of dazzling new red, blue and chartreuse offices, celebrated with a gay get-together. Chief speaker, as usual, was the company's florid, talkative president, George Storr May. Topic...
...Everett moved to the Quincy Street residence Wadsworth House became a student's boarding house. For a time Henry Adams lived in it. It also has housed the treasurer's office and the University printing press. Now, like other buildings which have outlived their original functions, it contains various minor College offices...
Harvard's minor sports schedule gets under way in earnest tomorrow, when three soccer games and a cross-country meet occupy the men of Coaches Jack MacDonald, Polly Guyda, and Jaako Mikkola. The first soccer squad will travel to Worcester Polytech, the second team to Andover, and the third to Soldiers Field for a tussle with Governor Dummer Academy, while the trackmen will run the 3.7 mile handicap course against...
...Solomons area, the Thirteenth Air Force sent 250 medium and heavy bombers against Bougainville in one day. The Japanese, with recent reinforcements flown in from other bases, made three attempts at retaliation: to minor raids on Guadalcanal, one minor raid on Funafuti. Spokesmen asserted that air patrols had made it impossible for any sizable Jap naval force to remain south of Rabaul for more than 24 hours...