Word: posted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Worry. It was a hot day in August 1934. Lewis W. Douglas, now Harry Truman's Ambassador to London, had just resigned from the budget post in protest over the New Deal's heavy spending; Douglas had vainly championed a balanced budget. Morgenthau got a hasty summons from Franklin Roosevelt. The President was taking a bath when the Secretary of the Treasury bustled in. "Henry," said F.D.R. blandly, "I give you until midnight to get me a new Director of the Budget...
...confused with Mrs. Hunkle, an "old bag" who lives in Sam Boal's column in the New York Post (TIME...
...Toronto's Financial Post, Sports Scribe Ronald Williams called them "shamateurs." The Canadian Rugby Union insisted they were amateurs. The Dominion's Revenue Department, which defines an amateur as a player "not signed to a professional contract," accepted the C.R.U.'s ruling. Result: big-time rugby teams will not have to pay the 20% federal amusement...
...greying black hair and a scrubby mustache, Armstrong is a descendant of Peter Stuyvesant, a grandnephew of the Hamilton Fish who was President Grant's Secretary of State, and a second cousin of Isolationist Ham Fish. He was 29 and foreign correspondent for the New York Evening Post when the Council on Foreign Relations* started Foreign Affairs and made him its managing editor. Six years later Armstrong became editor. With the help of one editorial associate and a secretary, Armstrong puts out the magazine in the Council's Park Avenue headquarters, across the street from the building recently...
...honored group, boasting a new backfield and a revamped line, has drawn varying opinions as to its potentialities. Notre Dame alumnus Francis Wallace (whose Saturday Evening Post prediction rated Notre Dame as the team of the year, Notre Dame ballhandler Johnny Lujack as the back of the year, and Notre Dame captain George Connors as lineman of the year) placed the Crimson in the "second flight" in the East, with opponents Yale (sixth-nationally and second only to Penn in the East) and Holy Cross ahead of the Cantabridgians, and rated Virginia as a "Southern dark horse...