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Sunk without a trace was the ticket headed by Lieut. Governor Ellis Patterson, who criticized the President's foreign policy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CAMPAIGN: Trend | 5/20/1940 | See Source »

Since heart disease retired Howard Hopson, many a public agency has sat up nights trying to trace his transactions among A.G.& E.'s 18 holding companies, its 154 operating units...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Tycoon's Expense Account | 4/22/1940 | See Source »

Charles S. Gardner, assistant professor of Chinese, Edwin O. Reischauer, instructor in far eastern languages; John K. Fairbank, instructor in history; and William Thompson, James Richard Jewett professor of Arabic, trace the history of Asia...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Langer to Publish Encyclopaedia on History of World | 4/18/1940 | See Source »

...Uncle" is the undergraduate monicker for Haverford presidents. Present uncle is genial, cricket-playing William Wistar ("Uncle Billy") Comfort, highbrowed classicist and devout Quaker, who can, with equal facility, trace a word to its Sanskrit root and a piece of undergraduate mischief to its only begetter. Haverford graduate (1894) and son of a graduate, in his 23-year presidency he has doubled the college's teaching staff and endowment ($4,500,000), kept the student body and intercollegiate athletics* down. Says he: ". . . The country needs an exhibit of quality, rather than quantity in education...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Morley to Haverford | 4/15/1940 | See Source »

...hospital cost more than $12,000,000 ($3,600,000 contributed by WPA), but so thriftily did Dr. D'Aunoy manage contracts that 30 FBI men, snooping from last June to January, could scent no trace of graft, a situation amazing in spoor-heavy Louisiana. Planted squarely between Tulane and Louisiana State University Medical School (built by Huey in a burst of rage against aristocratic Tulane), the hospital offers both schools equal laboratory and clinical facilities...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: New Orleans Hospital | 4/15/1940 | See Source »

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