Word: r
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Chicago Tribune's Colonel Robert R. McCormick came back from his flying tour of Europe feeling, in some ways, better. "I think America is four times as important as I thought before I left," said he. "It is ten times as important as the average man thinks, and 100 times as important as the average New Yorker thinks." As for Laborite England, said he, "an international crowd of social climbers have control...
...meeting in the open air. After a picnic supper, with heaps of fried chicken and hot biscuits, everybody filed into a little church in a grove. The ladies put on a fine program of songs and recitations. Then Brother Haslerig, the chairman, called on his house guest, Brother James R. Crawford, to offer a few remarks "preferably regarding the status of our people back in Pittsburgh." But it was getting late, so the visitor from Pittsburgh just stood and took...
...R. A. MCEVILLEY Norwood, Ohio...
...Pennsylvania for 19 years, he spent his days directing the university's Eldrige R. Johnson Foundation for Medical Physics, many of his nights experimenting in his own laboratory. Though not an M.D., he is a physiologist and chairman of the Government's National Research Council. For his wartime work in aviation medicine, the U.S. gave him a special award, the British gave him the Order of the British Empire...
...rusty wooden dumbwaiter." Rats, cockroaches, ants, moths shared living space with 32 servants: there wasn't a cookbook in the whole place, or "enough utensils to cook a fair-sized family meal." "You're not to worry . . . You're going to be all right," said Mrs. R...