Word: veteran
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...leader was pudgy, bespectacled Manilal Gandhi, 53-year-old son of the enshrined Mahatma. A veteran of repeated campaigns of passive resistance, Manilal Gandhi is editor of Durban's weekly newspaper Indian Opinion, founded by his father...
Radcliffe cracked the ranks of officers with the election of Elizabeth Russo '50, a WAC veteran, as executive secretary. Other new officers are Richard Lyman 1G, recording secretary, and Richard K. Brown '46, treasurer and financial chairman. Seven committee heads were also named...
...Congress passes the Andrews Bill, every non-veteran student has a four-to-one chance of ducking the draft...
Reporting the speech, Roscoe Drummond, the Christian Science Monitor's veteran Washington bureau chief, wrote: "I put it as a careful statement of fact that I have never heard any political personage receive any longer, more sustained or more spontaneous applause than came from that group of overwhelmingly Republican newspaper editors. They liked what Mr. Truman had to say and they liked the way he said it. They felt an integrity, a humility, a morality of purpose . . . which stirred their esteem, their regard and their good will...
There is only one other important political force--AVC. But it cannot be grouped with the rest, for its raison d'etre lies in backing issues affecting the citizen-veteran, not in support of candidates or parties...