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...decision was reached. A week later Johnson and Peron had a long talk about "attacks" on Señora Perón, etc., and the President promised to take up the ban with his minister in charge of customs. He said that it would take some time to straighten things...
...arguments in favor of a Geography department at Harvard have been explained before. In addition to fact that many Federal and international organizations call for trained geographers to help straighten out their problems, the field was one of the first divisions of the University to adopt the principles of general education, even before the GE program was born. Geography, as its friends claim, may still be the best vehicle for teaching the social sciences...
...Calder understood it. As soon as the news hit the wires, Calder cracked back: "I have not accepted the secretaryship of the Army today or accepted it for 60 days from now." In the ensuing confusion, Louis Johnson kept mum while Harry Truman loyally tried to straighten things out by hoping that Calder could still be persuaded. If not, the loud publicity would make it even harder to find another candidate. One trouble was that though the vacant Army and Navy secretaryships were still Cabinet posts in all but name, they were increasingly becoming mere under-secretaryships, under an unpredictable...
Copell admitted in an interview last night that there is a legal difficulty involved but said that he has been "trying to straighten it out with the city authorities quietly." He attributed the Traveler story to a clerk in his office...
...York Central laid off 450 all at one crack, part of 8,100 furloughed all along the line. Chewing on an old pipe, retired farmer "Granpa" Burkett declared: "That was the straw that broke the camel's back. Up to that point, people were saying that things would straighten out. Now they sit around the union halls and wonder whether they should move to some place where there is more varied opportunity...