Word: used
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...qualified to do so. This letter is written primarily because I resent the obviously prejudiced remarks made by a group claiming to represent the opinions of all veterans. I have no objection to any individual or group of individuals expressing their political views, but I do object to the use of the term "veterans" in making their views known publicly. We have the AMVETS, AVC, VFW, veteran bars, veteran filling stations, veteran cabs, and now Veterans Against MacArthur. When will the Veterans Committee Against Veterans Committees be organized? Allen E. Kline...
...Princeton Club's president told Swomley that "only because President Dodds of Princeton was a member of a committee advocating UMT., we allowed an organization sponsoring that proposal to use our mailing list...
They plan to keep a large Varsity squad--which will number about 35 men after a final cut coming up next week--out of which will come players for the Jayvee schedule. This use of second string regulars, according to Harper, should mean greater fluidity between the two squads...
...price. And Radio Corp. of America told of a much greater improvement to come (probably by year's end). It has developed a 16-in. steel cathode-ray tube (the basic part of a television set) which can be mass-produced to replace glass tubes now in use, thus lowering the costs of some sets...
...newspaperman Brant has plunged into source materials that professional historians have so far made little use of. His richest pickings were longhand copies of French diplomatic correspondence in the Library of Congress. To read them, Brant had to brush up on his French, went so far as to ask former French Ambassador Bonnet to check a point for him in the French archives (Bonnet obliged). Brant's new researches haven't helped him to prove the "human qualities of mind and emotion" he claims for Madison, but they have made possible a solid job of history...