Word: smith
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Tickler. In Fort Smith, Arkansas, Bill Kelton tickled his wife, chased her down the streets at dawn, disturbed his neighbors' peace, got a $100 fine and three months in jail...
...Asked Budget Director Harold Smith to begin planning the liquidation of some of the Government's 3,618,035 workers...
...summer term, the Harvard Liberal Union elected two new officers for its winter activities. After re-electing Irwin Loff '47 as treasurer and George S. Koch '47 as Secretary, the HLU proceeded to elevate Edgar M. Rubin '47, former vice-president, to the presidency, and Philip H. Smith, Jr. '47, former chairman of the membership committee, to the vice-presidency...
...devoted to propriety. He is one of the most formal high U.S. officers in Europe. When an officer enters his office, General Lee expects the halt, the clicked heels and the salute-held until he returns it. Then he wants the officer to report in the third person: "Colonel Smith of X Regiment reporting to the Commanding General." This formal procedure accomplished correctly, he usually thaws cordially. At staff meetings his aide calls for attention when the General approaches. The staff rise, stand like ramrods until Lee walks to his seat...
...Negroes, Editor Bucke will add an equal concern for Jews. As a pastor of Hyde Park, Mass.'s Methodist Church (Hyde Park, nearby Dorchester and Mattapan have 60,000 Jews), he has worked hard in their Good Neighbor Association to promote racial and religious goodwill. His theory: "John Smith must meet Jacob Epstein and get to know him as a human being." He put his theory into practice by taking Protestant young people to a synagogue service. On his first day at the Herald, Editor Bucke had on his desk a huge bouquet from Mattapan's Orthodox Jewish...