Word: w
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Britain, by agreeing to the Brussels pact, had waded in nevertheless. Last week there were signs that Britain was ready to take a full plunge. Many Britons were ready to go a lot farther. Seventy-one M.P.s signed a resolution got up by Australian-born Labor M.P. Ronald W. G. Mackay (rhymes with black eye) calling for complete merger of Western Europe and Britain in one federation. The seventy-one signers were members of all non-Communist parties; violent political enemies stood together on this vital issue. The resolution may become a historic milestone. It reads...
...getting ready to reopen in the fall. The school's new head had hired Butch (for 50? a week) to live in the place, so he could see how an ordinary boy would improve on the carefully arranged surroundings. The new head, Provost Donald W. Pierpont, 41, needed all the hints he could get to make sense out of the "Deed of Trust" that the school's founder had left behind...
Public Stock. In a public sale, J. P. Morgan & Co. got about 600 new stockholders. Investors paid $5,700,000 for 25,000 shares of Morgan stock owned by the late Thomas W. Lamont. The sale raised to 33½% the stock held by the public...
...completed the final plans, the Committee received warning last night from Richard W. Kimball '50, the Student Council's Chairman for Freshman Affairs, that he will attend the affair, and that if any riotous spirit exists, his committee will recommend to the Council the complete discontinuance of the traditional smoker...
...speech had an immediate effect on the meeting, but the hecklers walked out on masse during a later speech by Geoffrey W. White...