Word: states
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Amherst College students are being asked by their president, Charles W. Cole, to wage a fraternity war on automobile accidents. New rules for registering and operating a car at college state that a student must maintain a scholastic average of 75 or above. A couple of course flunked means he'll have to hoof it--or ride it the hard way. A student also must be a senior or junior and have the written permission of his parents...
Although Fraser had magnified the importance of the few incidents in Newfoundland, his article seemed likely to do more good than harm to U.S.-Canadian relations. For more than a year, Canadians have been working patiently and getting nowhere trying to iron out the problem with the U.S. State Department (and with U.S. Air Force brass who saw no reason for either generosity or haste). With the grievance aired in public, U.S. response might come a little faster...
...wartime Navy officer in the South Pacific, he is a bit to the right of his newspaper's longtime stand in politics. A Democrat but no rooting-tooting Fair Dealer ("I'm a liberal conservative"), he thinks that "welfare capitalism" is a better answer than the "welfare state," believes that if capitalism ignores its responsibilities, "we'll get the welfare state by default...
...goes in Washington, he usually finds that a fellow named McShain has been there before him. Though he lives in Philadelphia, slim, silver-mustached John McShain, 50, has built so many of Washington's public buildings that he has trouble keeping count. Among them: Jefferson Memorial, the new State Department Building, the National Airport terminal and he was the biggest prime contractor of the mammoth Pentagon...
...James Chesnut was 38 when the Civil War began. Highbred and lively, daughter of a governor of South Carolina and wife of a Confederate Senator, she was the sort of Charleston hostess to whom Jefferson Davis, Stephen Mallory, Alexander Stephens, Robert Toombs and other pillars of the Confederacy told state secrets...