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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With time out for a relaxed Thanksgiving Day, Harry Truman had worked hard all week cleaning up his desk. But at week's end, he turned out with the rest of official Washington to hear Margaret Truman sing with the National Symphony Orchestra. From the presidential box, her father...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PRESIDENCY: Vacation | 12/5/1949 | See Source »

¶ Finally found someone to fill the important job of chairman of the Munitions Board, a post for which the Senate had refused to accept Carl A. Ilgenfritz because he would not give up his $70,000 salary from U.S. Steel. The nominee: Hubert E. Howard, 60-year-old Chicago...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PRESIDENCY: Vacation | 12/5/1949 | See Source »

Who's in Charge? Other reasons he left unmentioned, but one was written large in last summer's headlines. In answering up to Republican Senator Bourke B. Hickenlooper's charges of maladministration, Lilienthal had rekindled the partisan politics which blazed up during the fight over his nomination...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE ADMINISTRATION: With Utmost Regret | 12/5/1949 | See Source »

Every metropolitan newspaper in both New York and Boston played the Bingham statement big, with the accent on Harvard giving up "big-time" football. It would be difficult to think up a better way to keep capable football players out of the Yard. The mere statement that Harvard will "give...

Author: By Donald Carswell, | Title: Egg in Your Beer | 12/3/1949 | See Source »

By playing up the "big-time" angle the newspapers have completely subverted the purpose of the alleged University ruling to give some kind of job security to football players. This job ruling represents the first time that the University has ever considered the position of the football player as a...

Author: By Donald Carswell, | Title: Egg in Your Beer | 12/3/1949 | See Source »

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