Word: shortly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Though as early as 1862 librarian John Langdon Sibley began his long (and unsuccessful in his lifetime) campaign for a new building, it was not until 1913 that the cornerstone of Widener was laid. Now, only a short time after President Conant's formal announcement that a new place was needed, plans are underway for the Lamont Undergraduate Library...
Additional nominations may be made by submitting petitions with a minimum of 25 names on or before Thursday to George I. Bell '48 in Lowell House P-31. Chairman of the Nominations Committee, Bell Stated yesterday that these elections would bring the Council to within one short of its normal complement of 17; the departure at the end of this term of Clinton M. Ritchie '47, Council president, and Jerome I. Andrews NROTC, will, however, necessitate three more appointments next term...
...these messages were not decoded in time. The Signal Corps's "Magic" project, which held the secret of the Jap code, was short of men and facilities. General Miles "assured" himself that the work was being done as fast as possible under the circumstances, decided that there his responsibility ended...
...Navy high command warned Admiral Husband E. Kimmel on Dec. 3 that Jap diplomats and consuls all over the world were destroying their papers and codes. General Miles did not ask the Navy to pass this message along to General Short at Honolulu. Said he: "That was not considered necessary. ... I believed that the Navy messages were being transmitted to the Army in Hawaii and vice versa...
...connected by his ships). To do so, Dodero tried unsuccessfully to buy U.S. planes in 1943. In England last summer the reception was warmer. Dodero was royally wined & dined. He got the wholehearted blessing of BOAC, Pan Am's most determined foreign competitors. Dodero bought four of Short Brothers' Sunderlands. This week the U.S. helped also. It allotted Dodero two surplus DC-45. Eventually, Dodero plans to buy at least six more planes, fly to Europe in competition with a proposed Pan Am route...