Word: secrets
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...accordance with the traditional University procedure of keeping secret the names of honorary degree recipients beforehand, Massachusetts Hall yesterday refused to comment on what will happen in Harvard, Illinois today...
From an artistic standpoint, "A Touch of the Times" has much so its credit. Photography has been under the direction of Hugh C. Foster '49, an Academy Award winner for his camera work on the Antarctic documentary, "Secret Land." And in place of running dialogue, an original musical score has been completed by a promising local composer. Yoder is highly enthusiastic about this music, and terms it one of the movie's biggest assets...
...Connell, would mean amending the 1938 Civil Aeronautics Act to "create an absolute monopoly of north-south air transportation . . . east of the Mississippi." But Diagnostician Rickenbacker had, at any rate, called attention once more to the fact that since the war he has held the domestic monopoly on the secret of making steady profits...
...Four), the same idea had occurred to a small, forward-looking group of U.S., British and Canadian capitalists. The group included ex-Secretary of State Edward R. Stettinius, onetime OSS Boss William J. Donovan and Britain's Sir William Samuel Stephenson, World War II boss of all British secret operations in the Western Hemisphere. At war's end, they and associates* formed the World Commerce Corp. and raised an initial $1.000.000 to help "bridge over the breakdown in foreign exchange." Their plan: to provide the tools, machinery and know-how to develop untapped resources. Last week, in Jamaica...
...could not have picked a better man. A colleague once described Canadian-born Sir William, now 53, as "quiet, unassuming, inconspicuous-perfect for his work as a spy because you never notice him." Sir William's World War II work was so secret that he will still not discuss it, before the war he was just as unobtrusive, and influential, in British high finance. Settling down in England after a World War I stint as an airman, he soon had a finger in radio, gramophones, aviation, steel, real estate and construction (he built London's huge sports arena...