Word: nelsons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Russia WPB Boss Donald Nelson and the Russians fell madly in love. It was no picayune thing of languors, but a grande passion, a robust, full-stomached affair...
...Nelson, back in Washington last week, told of a typical moment at one of those fabulous 25-toast sessions: "One of the officials seized a big china plate that was on the table. He said: 'When we Russians like somebody, we break a plate-like this.' And he raised his huge fist and crashed it down on the plate, smashing it to pieces...
Whereupon, said Nelson: "I reached out and grabbed two plates, and I said: 'When we Americans like somebody we break two plates-like this.' And I hit two plates with my fist. The plates broke all right, and my friend and the others present embraced me with enthusiasm. . . . 1 did not mind the scratch. ... It gave me an opportunity to say that my blood was merely a token-a little American blood on the Russian front...
Chief guest speakers at the meeting will be Richard C. Floyd '11, president of the Varsity Club, and "Swede" Nelson, who played right half back on the 1919 team which trounced Boston College 17 to 0 in the only formal meeting between the two colleges...
...month salary he collects, he spends $200 to keep up the small cottage he and his wife live in near the plant. His 150 workers are paid $350 to $400 a month. Looking at the whopping $4,000,000 business the rocket gun is doing annually, Ted Nelson has no worries about the present, few about the future...