Word: sending
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...since this inflation hit the dollar (Mr. B is an ex-Ma rine Gunnery Sergeant on retirement pay), we have all we can do to exist - let alone spend money for magazines. But we have some friends who know how much good read ing means to us and who send us their mag azines as they finish with them. They ar rive at our home in strange sequence: a 1936 copy of Reader's Digest, for instance, hug ging a current issue of TIME. But it matters little to us; we cherish each copy with the same...
...fact, he had. He had been turning over an idea in his mind ever since last summer. At that time Air Secretary Stuart Symington had suggested that the way to handle the Russian crisis was to send Dwight Eisenhower over to talk with Stalin. That suggestion was dropped, but Clifford remembered it. He also remembered how the President had broken a deadlock over voting procedure in U.N. by sending Harry Hopkins to Moscow. From a political point of view, Eisenhower was probably not a very good choice for such a job now. But why not send Chief Justice Fred Vinson...
...money. The man who was doing it was ex-OPAdministrator Chester Bowles, who was crisscrossing the state, dropping in at the county fairs (sometimes joining in the softball games), and appearing three times a week on a radio program on which he invited voters to send him all their personal complaints. He hammered away at inflation, proposed a "voluntary" price-control plan. Governor Shannon still figured to win. Chester Bowles's ambition was to pile up a vote impressive enough to give him a share in taking over the receivership of the Democratic Party...
...October 25, and continue until about November 16. Although the exact number of teams is not yet known, the committee hopes that two or three leagues of eight teams each can be formed, with first place teams vying for the Yard championship. Hope was also expressed that Yale might send a Freshman squad to compete here on Friday preceding the traditional Eli clash...
Commodore Pete Putnam announced last night his acceptance of a challenge issued last week by three Radcliffe dinghy racers, Rona Jaffe '51, Felicia Reed '52, and Betty Trygatad '52. The three had promised to take on any dinghy that the Harvard yacht team might choose to send against them...