Word: seniorities
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Recommendation. The House committee handled sad-faced Frank Oppenheimer gently. When he finished his testimony, Senior Investigator Louis J. Russell told the committee that it was only fair to let the record show that General Groves knew all along that Frank Oppenheimer had been a Communist who had broken clean before he went to work on the atomic bomb. "And," added Russell, "Dr. Oppenheimer's loyalty was vouched for by an outstanding scientist." Russell didn't name the outstanding scientist to the committee, but confided it to newsmen afterwards. It was brother Robert...
...oratorical proceedings in the House Ways & Means Committee Room in the New House Office Building sounded something like a high-school commencement. In itself, that was by no means unusual, but this time there really was a high-school commencement going on inside. One night last week the senior class (13 boys) of the Capitol Page School, one of the most uncommon academies in existence, got its diplomas almost like any other senior class, with the playing of Pomp and Circumstance, a welcome by Principal Orson W. Trueworthy, an address by John W. Snyder, Secretary of the Treasury...
...organized. It was not easy, because figuring out where the Bismarck would head for was just educated guesswork. Later it became known that there had been a hot argument aboard her. Captain Lindemann wanted to return to Germany; iron-willed Fleet Admiral Günther Lütjens, senior officer on board, ordered a westward dash. Systematically the Admiralty planted every available cruiser and destroyer across likely lines of escape. At 10:30 a.m. on May 26, the Bismarck was spotted by a Catalina patrol plane southwest of Ireland. This time Sir John Tovey's own flagship, King George...
...speech before alumni, deans, overseers and visiting committee members meeting with the sponsors of the new Harvard Foundation for Advanced Study and Research, the President restated two principles which he and Grenville Clark '03, senior Corporation member, recently set forth...
Robert Lynn Fisehalis '49 of Germantown, Pa, won the Radicott Peabody Saltonstall Prize. This award is made annually to "that senior in Harvard College proposing to enter the Harvard Law School who shall be considered to be the best fitted, by intellect, character, and physique, to be influenced by Saltonstall's example and in turn to influence others...