Word: pauls
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...vanloads of live musicians during campaigns; he promoted municipally financed concerts in Grant Park. In 1939 he expressed his gratitude for this largesse with a concert honoring Mayor Kelly. In so doing he gave a dramatic demonstration of his own power. At his "suggestion," 23 band leaders, among them Paul Whiteman, Fred Waring, Tommy Dorsey and Kay Kyser, brought their orchestras to Chicago at their own expense. The concert orchestras of the National, Columbia and Mutual broadcasting systems came...
...Manhattan, Brigadier General Carlos P. Romulo, the Philippines' chief U.N. delegate, got a gold medal for distinguished statesmanship from the International Benjamin Franklin Society (ex-High Commissioner Paul V. McNutt called him "the Benjamin Franklin of the Philippines...
...Should I have the power to order it," declared Belgium's Premier Paul-Henri Spaak, "I would ban any headlines . . . on international affairs bigger than one-half inch." Newspapers, the Premier complained, treat such matters "like crime and other sensational affairs...
Last week, 48 hours after he was named medical director of the Veterans Administration, six-foot, 63-year-old Dr. Paul Budd Magnuson came out of his corner fighting. He announced that he was sending to the American Medical Association a list of private physicians suspected of overcharging .the Government for treating veteran outpatients...
...Magnuson, an orthopedic surgeon, succeeds Major General Paul R. Hawley. He helped Dr. Hawley reorganize VA's medical department. Now Dr. Hawley, in addition to his new job of unifying the Blue Cross and Blue Shield insurance plans (TIME, Jan. 19), will help him by staying on as special assistant and adviser...