Word: vitalize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Vital Statistics. Age: 57 (born March 19, 1891 in a five-room frame house on Los Angeles' dingy Turner Street). Ancestry: his grandfather was Halvar Varran, a Norwegian carpenter, who came to the U.S. with his wife and two sons, settled in Iowa and anglicized his name; his father, Methias H. Warren,-born in Norway, moved from Iowa to California, became a master carbuilder for the Southern Pacific. His mother, Crystal Hernland, was the daughter of Swedish immigrants. Educated: Kern County (Calif.) high school, the University of California (1912), U. of C.'s School of Jurisprudence (1914). Married...
...International Conference of American States. It took them hardly longer to get down to business, once they convened in the refurbished brownstone Capitolio Nacional. For these representatives of the 21 American republics, two issues overshadowed all others: 1) U.S. economic aid for Latin America, the subject latinos held most vital; 2) Communism in the hemisphere, and how to deal with...
Communism to date is a political program backed by force . . . The answer . . . is a dynamic and vital political program on the democratic front . . . If we want the hundreds of millions of people of the world in the democratic ranks, we must show them the way with practical programs of social reconstruction...
...Vital Statistics. Age: 46 (born March 24, 1902 over a general store in Owosso, Mich.) Ancestry: the only child of George Martin Dewey, publisher of the Owosso Times and later postmaster of Owosso;* grandson of George Martin Dewey, one of the founders of the G.O.P. in Michigan; a fifth cousin of Admiral George Dewey. Educated: Owosso grade and high schools, University of Michigan (1923), Columbia University Law School (1925). Married: in 1928, to Frances Eileen Hutt of Sapulpa, Okla., daughter of a railroad brakeman, a onetime singer in a road company of George White's Scandals. Children: Thomas...
...Other vital change in the curriculum for 1948-49 will be the reinstatement of the prewar rule that certain courses must be taken as a whole rather than in two separate and not necessarily consecutive halves. During the war years, scrambled academic schedules necessitated the relaxation of this rule...