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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...dead include: Ralph B. Laird, 22, Camas, Wash.; James Leonard Bryan, Portland, Ore.; Noel L. Brown, 18, Seattle; Roger W. Young, 19, Seattle; Leonard B. Wickman, Bellevue, Wash.; David B. Haerle, Portland, Ore.; Asbjorn Reese, Seattle; Harry C. Franzheim 3rd, North Seattle; Russell H. Palmer, 27, Vancouver, Wash.; Wallace Hartley, Mercer Island, Wash.; Don Lee Garrett, Portland...
Later he was a protégé of famed Editor Fremont Older. When Older became convinced that Tom Mooney (whom he disliked) had been railroaded to jail for the Preparedness Day bombing of 1916, the Bulletin's bosses refused to back up their editor. W. R. Hearst sent Older a wire: COME TO THE CALL. BRING THE MOONEY CASE WITH YOU. Older took Johnny Bruce with him too, and Bruce dug up the evidence that eventually helped free Mooney...
Many of them had already tried other work. Said McCormick's Robert W. Henderson: "I'd seen war and I was selling paint. Not that selling paint was wrong, but it wasn't enough." Former Lawyer James W. Angell "never felt law meant anything. Here I'm in touch with the basic issues of life." At Chicago Theological Seminary, Dennis Bennett, 31, said: "I was seven years in business, married, with two kids. I finally realized that I had never found a channel of expression...
...Atomic Energy Commission, worried over the enormous problem of integrating its Government-controlled giant into a free-enterprise economy, wanted to know why. It called in a committee of businessmen, headed by able James W. Parker, 62, utility engineer, onetime head of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, and president of the Detroit Edison Co. This week, Parker's committee reported back. Its answer was a blast at AEC. (Snapped one AEC staffer: the report clearly showed that industry was "drooling" to grab off atomic energy processes...
...library is named after Thomas W. Lamont '92, whose gift of $1,500,000 in November, 1945, launched the project. Construction began in June, 1947. Delayed by strikes and record snows, the building was finally completed after 19 months of work...