Word: seniorities
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Harvard's thousand freshmen will find themselves living for the most part in the historic elm-shaded Yard which until nine years ago was the sanctum of the Senior Class. Here they will exist as a unit more or less separated from the rest of the college with their lives centering in the Harvard Union, combination dining room, pool parlor, dance hall, and library...
Italian King Vittorio Emanuele, who was the Senior Foreign Knight of the Garter and personally stands high in the regard of the British Royal Family, was gazetted out last week with utmost respect. The stall reserved for the Italian King in St. George's Chapel, Windsor, will merely remain vacant, instead of being assigned to some other Knight of the Garter. The knightly banner of the House of Savoy was not destroyed, but placed in the same storage vault which holds that of Kaiser Wilhelm...
...Roman Catholic Church ranges from plain people to prelates. A prelate who takes a particular interest in plain people is the Most Rev. Bernard James Sheil, Senior Auxiliary Bishop of Chicago. Shrewd, kindly, soft-spoken Bishop Sheil realizes that the workingman is the backbone of his Church, last year made headlines by supporting C. I. O.'s organization of the packinghouse workers in Chicago's stockyards. Last winter the Bishop did some organizing himself. Last week at Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria Hotel the directors of Bishop Sheil's Industrial Areas Foundation (who include John L. Lewis...
Prime Minister Robert Gordon Menzies was overcome by emotion as he told the Australian Parliament the story. He paused at one point and covered his face with his hands. Politically, Mr. Menzies' loss of three senior Ministers from his Cabinet laid him wide open to strident Labor demands that the Australian general election, which the Government has tried to postpone on the plea of war emergency, be held in 1940 as it normally would be under the Constitution...
...crucial question whether Australian Labor could now force a test at the polls and, if victorious, proceed to make the Commonwealth out-&-out Socialist was adjourned while obsequies of the senior Ministers and Chief of Staff were held, with new U. S. Minister to Australia Clarence Gauss in attendance. While the Prime Minister quietly took his political soundings, Major General John Northcott was promoted to act as new Chief of the Australian General Staff. The late Chief, Sir Brudenell White, was buried last week in a little brush cemetery a few miles from his ranch...