Word: shortly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Another plan which the scholarship committee will consider is a short-term loan fund for extracurricular activities. This was suggested by Carl S. Sloane '58 to avoid ending the meeting on "a farcical note" and to remedy the fact that "we've done nothing to aid the student body since February...
...Short days after the Eisenhower Administration came into office, a spike-haired young man named Robert Walter Scott McLeod clattered through the marble corridors of the State Department like a broncobuster. A onetime (1942-49) FBI agent and former administrative assistant to New Hampshire's Senator Styles Bridges, McLeod was brought in to direct the State Department's security "cleanup" program, and he quickly kicked up a dust that never quite settled. Last week the dust blew and the epithets flew anew as President Eisenhower nominated Scott McLeod to be U.S. Ambassador to Ireland...
...Wallace said at the outset, was a name "that flashes a dramatically desirable picture in people's minds . . . Over the past few weeks this office has confected a list of 300-odd candidates which, it pains me to relate, are characterized by an embarrassing pedestrianism. We are miles short of our ambition...
...next eleven months Miss Moore heard nothing more. Then, on Nov. 8, 1956, Wallace dropped Poetess Moore a short note: "We have chosen a name out of the more than 6,000-odd candidates that we gathered. It fails somewhat of the resonance, gaiety and zest we were seeking. But it has a personal dignity and meaning to many of us here. Our name, dear Miss Moore, is-Edsel...
...prime example of how productivity can be boosted in a short time with such cooperation was demonstrated at Chrysler. More than a year ago, with sales sagging and 45,000 of its 130,000 production workers laid off, Chrysler retooled and modernized its production lines, got tacit approval from the U.A.W. to increase output per man. Today, with 110,000 workers, Chrysler is making almost as many cars as in 1955. But this has also brought protests from union locals against the "speedup." To bring pressure on the corporation for a change in production quotas, the U.A.W. last week ordered...