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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week a big part of the answer came from the best possible and most unexpected source : hulking, close-mouthed William S. Knudsen. who gave up the $300,000-a-year presidency of General Motors last summer to join the National Defense Advisory Commission (for nothing) as head of its...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DEFENSE WEEK: Big Bill's Answer | 12/23/1940 | See Source »

Meeting up against a much faster Northeastern basketball team than it expected, Coach Wes Fesler's Varsity five rose to the occasion and put on its best speed of the season in trouncing the visitors 51' to 33 last night in the Indoor Athletic Building. The Yardlings had previously tanned...

Author: By A.edward Rowse, | Title: QUINTET TOPS AGILE HUSKIES IN 51-33 WIN | 12/19/1940 | See Source »

On occasion he works out each move, for platoons as well as divisions, in minutest detail before ordering it.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BALKAN THEATRE: Surprise No. 6 | 12/16/1940 | See Source »

The comrades, said Dr. Grebanier, met weekly in each other's homes,* discussed Marxism, united-front politics. Teachers Union affairs, how to vote in faculty elections. "It would be wrong to say," he explained, "that there was any deep-dyed plotting in these discussions." They also got reading assignments...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Reds in Brooklyn | 12/16/1940 | See Source »

Unfortunately, as those who attended know, some speakers at that meeting did not conform to the standards of sanity and sincerity which Professor Morison describes and which might be expected on such an occasion.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE MAIL | 12/13/1940 | See Source »

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