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Other railroaders call Budd "the presidents' president" because such big wheels as the Rock Island's President John Farrington, Santa Fe's President Fred Gurley and the Great Northern's President Frank Gavin are Budd-trained men. Soon a protegé will succeed him. Next August, Ralph Budd will be 70 - and the Burlington has an inflexible rule that its men must retire at that age. Budd has no intention of breaking the rule: he made...
...second year of the New Deal, Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau Jr. took a protegé named Danny Bell up to Hyde Park to meet the Roosevelts. Danny had just been appointed Acting Director of the Budget. Henry the Morgue introduced him to Mrs. James Roosevelt, the President's mother...
Died. Camillo Cardinal Caccia Dominioni, 69, friend and protegé of Pope Pius XI, who was named a Cardinal in 1935, served the Vatican as chamberlain-in-chief, majordomo and dean of the Order of Deacons; of a heart ailment; in Rome...
...disassociate his brand of internationalism from that of the New Deal. He had been rebuffed for intruding in a state not his own, but he had not yet been repudiated as a national candidate. That test would come in the July 8 Minnesota primary, when Stassen's protegé, Governor Edward Thye, runs for the G.O.P. senatorial nomination against old, isolationist Henrik Shipstead...
Australians have begun to acquire the U.S. view of a Chaplin minus mustache and baggy pants, the off-screen Chaplin who is a dapper, grey multimillionaire of 54, widely envied in Hollywood for his unassailable arrogance and for his affairs with a succession of pretty young "proteg...