Word: van
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Major Louis Rothschild Lefkoff, a mis fit officer, was a reflection on his superiors' inertia: he had moved to new jobs and higher rank through a series of military failures. Finally found ill fitted for active command, Lefkoff was sent to Camp Van Dorn, a dreary clump of tar-paper bar racks and huts some 50 miles south of Natchez as police and prison officer...
...Hitler Gang (Robert Watson, Victor Varconi, Luis Van Rooten, Martin Kosleck; TIME...
...character of the U.S. press has changed with the economic times. It was free in the days of small business, says Nebraska-born Lasch, when "the tramp printer and ambitious editor marched in the van of westward migration. . . . Every party, every faction had its own newspaper. A shoestring and the gift of gab were almost all a man needed to launch one." When business grew big, "personal journalism gave way to the corporation and the chain." The press became "an integral part of the economic structure. . . . Business had run politics and politics had run the press. Now the newspaper...
...Hitler Gang (Robert Watson, Victor Varconi, Luis Van Rooten, Martin Kosleck; TIME...
...members replace Clifton Fadiman, Will D. Howe, and Burton E. Livingston. The other two members of the Book Committee are Irita Van Doren, literary editor of the New York Herald Tribune, and Dorothy Canfield Fisher, author and member of the Book of the Mouth Club's Committee on Selection. The members of the Book Committee volunteer their services in guiding the reading selections of the more than 90,000 members of Phi Beta Kappa for whom the "Key Reporter" is published...