Word: seniorities
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...time he was dressed, his senior subordinates were recommending that the ship be abandoned. Scrappy Captain McVay, who won the Silver Star for gallantry as second in command of the cruiser Cleveland in the Solomons, was not convinced at first. The court must decide whether his delay in issuing the order increased the ghastly loss of life...
Last week Princeton joined in. Princeton's plan calls for a closer watch on freshmen and sophomores than before. They will have to take courses in four general fields: natural science; modern society; art and literature; history, philosophy and religion. Junior and senior years they'll be more on their own. Says Princeton's President Harold W. Dodds: the new plan stresses "both the unity of knowledge and the diversity of human beings...
...dances a SHAEF-patched U.S. Army captain staggered drunkenly off the dance floor. His 'Is there any son-of-a-bitching Russian in the house?' could be heard all over the suddenly quiet club. His bleary eyes fell upon my guest of the evening, Russian Senior Lieut. Anton Pablov. Making his way towards our table, the American officer shouted at the top of his lungs: 'Come on out and fight, you raping bastard...
...late Franklin D. Roosevelt was proud of being senior warden of St. James' Church at Hyde Park, N.Y. His father had been a vestryman before him. His first son, James, also served. St. James' and the Roosevelts were linked by tradi tion and sentiment. On Nov. 14, the Roosevelt-less vestry of ivy-covered...
Asked what the vestry of St. James' would do about the Bishop's bolt from the blue, Senior Warden Edmund Pendleton Rogers said: "I certainly think the vestry wouldn't go against Bishop Manning." Vestryman-elect Elliott Roosevelt (who had not asked to be a vestryman) said nothing...