Word: shaking
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Robert Maynard Hutchins is now a No. 1 man with an A+ title. In an administrative shake-up which he called "purposely confused," Dr. Hutchins last week turned over his title as president of the University of Chicago-but none of his major duties and privileges-to suave, 44-year-old Ernest C. Colwell, who had ably served for the past year as vice president and dean of faculties. For himself Dr. Hutchins devised the new post of chancellor...
...Senator sat down, colleagues and visitors, who had listened to him in almost hypnotic silence, broke into applause. Senators lined up to shake his hand. His famed speech of last Jan. 10 had foreshadowed the coming bipartisan approval of U.S. internationalism. Now Arthur Vandenberg had done it again...
...rode Attorney General Thomas Campbell Clark, Postmaster General Robert Emmett Hannegan, Labor Secretary Lewis Baxter Schwellenbach, Agriculture Secretary Clinton Presba Anderson. This week's plans called for James Francis Byrnes to be sworn in as Secretary of State (see above). Washington gossips buzzed of further changes and more shake-ups to come...
...from windows, perched in trees. As the General passed, the roar of welcome all but drowned out the bands along the street. He stood in his car, arms outstretched, grinning as though at old friends. When police lines broke at 14th Street and Pennsylvania Avenue, he leaned out to shake hands with those who pushed against his automobile...
Early in the week, Baltimore began to sweat and shake with its annual seven-day fever over a horse race. Despite a change in jockeys and a jinx, the horse causing the highest rise in temperatures was Hoop Jr., a satchel-headed bay that won an easy six-length triumph at Louisville. There was no standout challenger until midweek, when Pavot turned in a sensational 1:59⅓workout (for a mile and three-sixteenths). By Saturday, 30,000 fans who shoved into Pimlico for the Preakness had just about forgotten that there were seven other entries...