Word: misses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Administration warily hinted at a further expansion of its foreign policy. Secretary of State Marshall wrote: "Enduring political harmony rests heavily upon economic stability." Under Secretary Dean Acheson,* speaking in Cleveland, Miss., was a little more obvious. Said Acheson: "When Secretary Marshall returned from Moscow he did not talk to us about ideologies or armies. He talked about food and fuel and their relation to industrial production ... to the peace of the world. . . . The facts of international life mean that the U.S. is going to have to undertake further emergency financing...
Bess Myerson, who was Miss America 1945, was picked to be Queen of Cotton* at the International Textiles Exposition in Manhattan next month. She slipped into a little something cotton to show that she was born to rule...
...last month, and come up with a grim little yarn involving a number of mousetraps and an old man wielding a blowtorch. There is also a poem by Mary Devolder which goes through the history of English poetry, promoting a four de force of the verse of important periods. Miss Devolder is undoubtedly clever, but the poem isn't very much fun to road, largely because of lines like...
...Whereas the now defunct constitution provided that a member could be ejected from the Council if he were grossly negligent in the performance of his duties, the new constitution makes attendance the test of competence, and specifies that a two-thirds vote of the Council may remove members who miss five meetings in a term...
Other officers elected were: Margaret Muller of Smith, to the vice-presidency, and Ruth Livingston, of Bennington College, as secretary-treasurer. Miss Bruchholz and Beverly Greenberg of Mount Holyoke were elected to the Executive Board while on position was left open to be filed by a Connecticut representative...