Word: swans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Resurrected for what he called his swan song was Republican Ancient (74) Charles Gates ("Charlie") Dawes, first director of the Budget. He declared his belief that the public debt soars because Government departments are putting one over on Franklin Roosevelt; that if the next President would make his department heads swear fealty to the idea of budget balancing, and if a "coordinating control system" would mete out each department's funds, deficits would end. (Three days later, indignant Franklin Roosevelt, who has not been to a C. of C. convention in seven years, told some 5,000 Democratic women...
...shopping tour, and made her over completely: new clothes, new hair, a glamorous makeup. Nurse Phillips gave Mademoiselle so much publicity that Betsy turned the stunt into a contest for ugly girls. From thousands of photographs of sad-eyed ducklings Betsy would choose one, send her home a cinema swan. Mademoiselle's circulation reached a peak of 178,057 in May 1939, began falling again...
...SWAN OF USK-Helen Ashton-Macmlllan ($2.50). The life of Henry Vaughan, one of the valuable minor poets of Milton's time, made into a valuable minor novel. Vaughan's boyhood in the Welsh mountains, his life at Oxford and in noisome London, his service as a trooper-surgeon for King Charles in the savage Civil Wars and his later life as a country physician are reconstructed in a sober, ringing prose that suggests the rich style of the 17th Century. Scholar Ashton's battles and amputations make a plausible background for Vaughan's fine devotional...
...July, the same year, the body of a certain Walter Sage was tied to a slot machine, dumped into Swan Lake in the Catskill Mountains of Sullivan County...
...Elected Dean of Yale's Law School was Ashbel ("Pail"-from ashpail) Green Gulliver. Of Dean Gulliver's three immediate predecessors, two (Thomas Walter Swan and Charles Edward Clark) are now judges of the U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals, the third (Robert Maynard Hutchins) is president of University of Chicago. Under them, Yale's Law School rose to top rank, today vies with Harvard's for the distinction of being the most illustrious law school...