Word: oak
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Smith, the rabble-rousing, anti-Administration, anti-British (but not notably anti-Nazi) preacher of isolationism, last week nominated his own Hall of Fame-"a partial list of fearless Ameri-cans": 1) Colonel Robert R. McCormick, publisher of the Chicago Tribune. 2) Father Charles E. Coughlin, of Royal Oak, Mich. 3) Gerald B. Winrod, anti-Semite, anti-Catholic editor of The Defender, Wichita, Kans. 4) Eleanor Patterson, publisher, Washington Times-Herald. 5) Elizabeth Billing, Chicago Red-baiter. 6) Joseph M. Patterson, publisher, the New York Daily News. 7) Congressman Martin Dies of Texas. 8) William Randolph Hearst. 9) The editors...
James E. McNulty '45, of Oak Park, Illinois and Thayer Hall, has been chosen to represent his class on the Student Council Committee on Freshman Affairs, it was announced yesterday by the Council. He will take office immediately, and will advise the Council on the welfare of the problems facing the Class...
...Embassy on Washington's 16th Street, Russian Ambassador Maxim Maximovich Litvinoff (pronounced Lit-VEEN-off) heard the seconds tick. Watching the dogwood bloom on the lawn, he could picture the Russian spring: no Russian, however far from his homeland, can forget the feathery pastels of white birch and oak, the woods alive with the calls of the zhavornok and the drozd, the heady smell of mushrooms and flowers sprouting in soil musty-damp from the winter's snow...
...Wright houses for many years. A tireless experimenter with new materials and bold forms, he invented and evolved new structural uses for everything from concrete to plywood, built houses that challenged every conventional rule of the architect's art. By 1910, his new ideas had spread from suburban Oak Park, Ill., where he lived, to Holland and Germany, where a whole school of modern architecture grew up from seeds Architect Wright had planted...
...Oak. For all his detachment, Henry Wallace knows how to handle himself in Washington clinches. This time he had potent help from Donald Nelson and quiet, able Budget Director Harold Smith. Last week's executive order lifted Wallace above wrangling. Henceforth Jesse Jones must sign any check Wallace shoves at him. Henceforth the State Department may enter only formal protests...