Word: pres
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Works. A.C.B.'s money-gathering technique, polished by some 2,200 campaigns, is typical of the philanthropic finance industry. Its keynote is careful organization, its first rule: set the quota just high enough. The staff organizers and publicity men are briefed by the firm pres ident on the upcoming campaign. Then an impressive committee, headed by Franklin D. Roosevelt, if possible, is lined up and plugged in press & radio...
...patrols must keep the initiative: mud or no mud, they must keep the enemy off balance. Said Krueger: "I asked my troops to do the impossible and they did it." The next phase of Krueger's plan required the 7th and 32nd Divisions to step up their pres sure on the enemy and thus suck in his reserves. They did that, too, while the rainy season deluged them...
...neighbors from the Maine wilderness masterfully took charge of proceedings. Perhips if they had only sung off pitch, weakly, colorlessly, or with poor diction, the effect would not have been so bad. But when all these are coupled with a poorly selected group (consisted of nothing but Josquin des Pres, Hassler, Lotti, and Leisring) and an acrobatic figure on the conductor's stand, the limit has been surpassed...
...Mills as a young widow with two small boys, raised it from a dowdy finishing school to a western Vassar. Its students run their own affairs, are allowed to stay out until 2:30 a.m. and are Stanford men's favorite dates. Mrs. Reinhardt, whom they fondly call "Pres" to her cheerful face, has two basic principles in educating them: 1) "Women need mental muscles," 2) "Woman is more important than anything she knows." She tries to teach them to be good wives & mothers and to take an interest in creative arts...
...Bishop Coadjutor of Pennsylvania-the second oldest, largest and richest Episcopal diocese in the country; and next year he will automatically succeed 80-year-old Dr. Francis Marion Taitt as Bishop. The diocese will almost certainly pay him less than the $12,000 salary he receives from his pres-ent church, perhaps even less than the $9,000 he received from his previous parish, but the post will make him one of the outstanding young leaders of the church. He is only...