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Independent engineers agreed that Douglas Dam was needed; so did President Roosevelt, Under Secretary of War Robert P. Patterson, everybody on SPAB. OPM's Bill Batt called the one-man fight against Douglas Dam an "irreparable blow to the national defense program"; McKel- lar's constituents bombarded him with angry letters. Finally he had to give...
Multi-busy Deems Taylor steps into the presidency on a part-time basis,* and without salary. Feeling that "ASCAP ought not to be a one-man show," he plans to build a smooth-running organization to do the active work. Quipped Mr. Taylor: "I hope to get the presidency to the point where I will earn my salary...
Pierre Laval, 58, whose swart skin may be traceable to Moorish ancestry, was born twelve miles from Vichy at Chaåteldon, where he now owns an old chateau (see cut, p. 29). His father was the innkeeper, butcher and one-man post office. As a boy, Pierre haggled with his father's customers, was known as a vicious bully...
Died. Philip Wilson Steer, 81, British landscape and portrait painter; in London. A prominent figure in turn-of-the-century art circles in London, he was the first living painter to be given a one-man show in the famed Tate Gallery...
...four smaller language departments, the war has caused little change. Neither Semitic Languages nor Comparative Philology has suffered any alterations at all. Indic Philology, with its one concentrator and one Faculty member, has felt a decrease in course enrollment from 16 to 13 student because of a shift to intensive Japanese. The relatively new Celtic Department, founded in 1940, has felt no changes in its one-man staff and 20 students...