Word: vinson
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Elections to the Business School Council have placed Charles Whalen in general charge of social activities at the School for the coming year, it was announced yesterday. Assisting him when he takes over his presidential duties in February will be Edwin Cox, elected vice-president, and Vinson H. Beckman, chosen to be secretary...
...Collier's last week, Chairman Vinson of the House Naval Affairs Committee reported that TNT depth charges must explode within 15 feet of the hull in order to rupture a modern submarine...
Once more John L. Lewis has proved himself God's gift to the professional labor-baiter. West-brook Pegler can now re-fill his fountain pen and Carl Vinson re-wag his Senatorial tongue, for the President of the United Mine Workers has chosen to defeat Hitler by leading his 2,800 members...
...months. He did business with Navy and Coast Guard officers at expensive parties-for which his clients also had to pay. But he had suffered a change of heart, thought now that it was wrong for such commissions to be paid on Navy business. Asked Chairman Vinson: "When did your conscience begin to hurt you?" Said uneasy Mr. Ward, nodding toward another angry committee member: "He brought it to my attention...
...carriers are about the size of U.S.S. Wasp (14,700 tons), 500,000 tons will provide about 34 brand-new carriers. Keel-layings will follow hard on bill-signing, and Chairman Vinson waxes choleric at any hint that shipyards cannot handle the business. This would give the U.S. a total of about 85 good-sized carriers. (A few guessers think that the new carriers will include some of very small tonnage, for fighters only. They would act as scouts and defenders, to protect the big carriers bearing the dive- and torpedo-bombers. If such small carriers are built, the total...