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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bobbles), Secretaries Charlie Ross (press) and Matt Connelly (agenda). Clifford decides what Cabinet officers or other Administration officials should be called in for consultation, sets up a special subcommittee to chew on the problem. Major policy questions, or tough ones the subcommittee cannot decide, Harry Truman brings to his regular Friday Cabinet meeting...
...narrow-gauge railway, wood-burning and rachitic, is the regular transport over the 1,000 miles between Rio and the boomtown of Anapolis, in Goiaz (see map). It takes four days & nights by rail to reach Anapolis, gateway to the rich backlands, and longer if the trip is made by road. But from the lush lowlands of the north and the coffee fazendas to the south, 50,000 Brazilians a year are passing through muddy, roughhewn Anapolis in search of new homes and new times, just as U.S. pioneers a century ago left the Atlantic coast and headed west...
Said Tsaldaris: "If by regular democratic methods and arguments the Greek people want to elect Communists to the majority . . . the Communists are welcome to it. The Communists in France, Italy and Belgium have won considerable power and influence through normal participation in the political life of their countries. Why can't Greek Communists do the same...
Piece by piece the audience begins to unbend, soon a species of buying hysteria overtakes them and for a whole there is a regular avalanche of sales. Proceedings cool down a bit, however, after it becomes clear that the so-called limited number of boxes are showing no signs at all of running out, and after a few of the lucky first comers have had a chance to see their prizes. At the end of the show after more blue lights. Russian dancing bears, and suggestive hip wiggles, there file out into the dismal Boston streets many proud possessors...
Scholarship grants to enable needy students to meet their term bill were also on the slate at the Council's regular Monday night session. Robert D. Cross '45, chairman of the finance committee, said that petitions for Council aid must be turned in at the Council office in Phillips Brooks House by 5 o'clock tomorrow...