Word: stover
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Lawrington E. Stover...
Walter Huston is always a likable and skillful actor, and Apple of His Eye is a harmless enough little play-as rural and homey, at its best, as an old, dented tin dipper. But its shy and anxious courtship makes a long and languid evening. Farmer Stover shows twice the indecision of Hamlet without any of the excitement. The apple of his eye is a decent, agreeable girl but singularly unobservant. And the worried relatives, gabby neighbors and drawling farm help that punctuate-and protract-the evening are all stock-comedy figures...
Responsible for placing Nisei in colleges is the Quaker-inspired, interdenominational National Japanese American Student Relocation Council of Philadelphia. Clerics and educators set up the Council at the request of ex-Director Milton Stover Eisenhower (brother of the General) of the U.S. War Relocation Authority. Council finances come from private sources. Council director is white-haired, 66-year-old Carlisle V. Hibbard, who has Japanese lore (he spent a decade in Tokyo, a year in Jap-held Manchuria) and relocation experience (he worked with World War I prisoners of war). Assistant Secretary of War John Jay McCloy sees...
...Osborne, Jr. Paul Latshaw Miller Francis Parkman, Jr. Frank Hoyt Powell Paul Franklin Perkins, Jr. Joseph Loomis Ray, Jr. Albert Clinton Petite Robert E. Lee Rochelle Donald Westgate Richards John Edward Sonneland Armand Schwab, Jr. Donald Theodore Trautman Sidney Oslin Smith, Jr. Edus Houston Warren, Jr. Robert Treat Paine Stover, Jr. Richard Lewis Warren Orvin Grout Wood, Jr. Edric Antory Weld, Jr. Andrew Howell Wright Frank Sanford Whiting
...carry out OWI's job of clearing and coordinating official war information, Director Davis set up a working organization, with the help of a crack Washington administrator, Milton Stover Eisenhower (brother of the U.S. Army Commander in the European theater...