Word: nelsons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Five months ago President Roosevelt gave young (32) Nelson Rockefeller a bigger job than any he was heir to. His title: Coordinator of Commercial and Cultural Relations between the American Republics. His job: to give the U. S. a better name than it had, south of the Rio Grande. That meant economic aid (to check Nazi penetration) and the active publicizing of the U. S. case (to supplant Nazi propaganda on the virtues of dictatorship...
Within the office of OPM would be at least three divisions-Production, headed by Glassman John David Biggers; Purchases, bossed by Sears, Roebuck's Donald Marr Nelson; Priorities, bossed by Steelman Edward Reilly Stettinius Jr. The President paused, blew out a cloud of cigaret smoke. The questions popped...
Entitled simply The Cheese Omelette Clubbe after a motion to name it The Cheese Omeletic Institute of 1941 was defeated, the organization is headed by gourmet Rufus Mathewson '41 and gourmand Nelson Gidding '41. Its seven members plan to meet in one of Mr. Cronin's semi-private dining rooms on Monday evenings, order their "omelettes epatants" from the special chef, and dine before the awed gazes of uninitiated onlookers...
Excavations at Ezion-geber ("Solomon's Singapore") at the head of the eastern spur of the Red Sea have revealed "architectural, engineering and metallurgical skills which, in some respects, have hardly been excelled today." reported Archeologist Nelson Glueck. director of the American School of Oriental Research at Jerusalem. Important as a naval base and port. Ezion-geber was still more important as the greatest copper and iron smelting town of antiquity. The diggings have shown that "it was the largest single armament centre of the day, and played an exceedingly important role in furnishing arms for the tremendous...
...chiefly with the gay, carefree life of Old Vienna, with two people awfully, awfully, desperately in love, and genius starving in a garret. Nothing is notably different from any other picture of that type and about the best that can be said for it is an acceptable encore of Nelson Eddy and Jeanette MacDonald. And there will probably be people who will still be clapping for another...