Word: seniors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...third largest margin in New Jersey's history, the Republicans took over the governorship from Democrat Charles Edison-who didn't seem to mind. Wealthy, 69-year-old Walter Evans Edge (Hoover's Ambassador to France, ally of the senior Henry Cabot Lodge in the Senate fight against the League of Nations) piled a plurality of 128,000 votes over Newark's Mayor Vincent J. Murphy, supported by Jersey City's Frank Hague, the Communists, A.F. of L., C.I.O., and Frank Sinatra...
There are two floors of stacks below the building, having a capacity of more than 1,000,000 books. The present collection about half fills them, and about a tenth of these are on exhibition. Unlike the dingy labyrinths of Houghton's senior partner, the stacks are bright with fluorescent lighting that penetrates even to the bottom shelf, but only members of the staff are allowed to appreciate them. The light and humidity of the entire building are so regulated as to prolong the life of the manuscripts
...Senior Animal Husbandryman Black of the U.S. Department of Agriculture would probably hold the finest breed to be Santa Gertrudis strain out of Afrikanders which he helped develop on the King Ranch in Texas. Some of us on the commercial side of cow business insist and prove by our records that a crossbred Shorthorn on Hereford from the western slope of the Rockies (area is important) feeds out better than any other animal. But the leading breed in numbers of breeders, numbers of head, range coverage, which tops the Chicago market about 85% of the time, is Hereford...
...Single War Department? "Senior officers of both the Army and Navy are deeply impressed with the need for unity of the services. . . . There is a surprising amount of sentiment among these men for a single Department of War, with autonomous land, sea and air services coordinated at the top by a joint staff, with each branch free to pursue its own personnel and materiel policies...
...week. Among the student officers are two Lieutenants (junior grade) the first women above the rank of ensign to study supply here. They will be under Captain Kenneth C. McKintosh, head of the NTS (Supply Corps) as Officer in Charge, with Lieutenant (j. g.) Marie A. Gaertner as their senior duty officer...