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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Tension. Over in the Senate, the galleries were nearly empty. During the week, the Senate had managed to approve the appointment of Lewis W. Douglas as Ambassador to Britain, send the Military Merger Bill to the Armed Services Committee, vote OPA into oblivion (expiration date: June 30), and promise a cut of $4½ billion in the President's $37.5 billion budget. The Senators had also had to stew around while colleagues on both sides of the aisle belabored the Congressional Record with eulogies of William Randolph Hearst (see PRESS), editorials and letters from the folks at home. Gradually...
...finalists, who were selected from a field of 20 students competing in the preliminary contest held last Wednesday, are: Robert L. Fischelis '50, Edward A. W. Franklin '47, William P. D. Bailey '46. J. Jay Hughes '48, Michael D. Dawson '46, Robert K. Bingham '48, Henry P. Robbins '48, Paul C. Richter '46, Paul L Wright '49, and Lawrence Creshkoff...
Arguing the affirmative on the topic: "Resolved: That the United Nations be made a federal world government at once," an Amherst home team composed of J. C. Cochrane and G. B. Franklin downed a negative Council team of Frederic L. Chapin '50 and Warren W. Furth '49, who had traveled to Amherst for the match...
Jerome Preston, Jr. '44 and John W. McNulty '48 were chosen co-chairmen of the Committee on Curriculum and Tenure, while William L. Bruce '47 will take over supervision of the '47 Class elections...
Those on the list were: Robert Ashenhurst, F. W. Parker School, Chicago; Jere W. Bruner, Bath High school, Bath, Ohio; Francis F. Chen, Horace Mann School, New York; Giles Constable, Phillips Academy, Andover; Hampton Davis, Central High School, Sioux City, Iowa; Jack Durell '49, Bronx High School of Science, New York; Samuel I. Epstein, Boston Latin; Preston W. Gifford, Jr., Fairhaven High School, Fairhaven; Ralph Gross '49, James Madison High School, Brooklyn; Frederic D. Houghteling, Phillips Academy, Exeter, New Hampshire; Albert A. Kopf, George Washington High School, New York; Vasilios G. Letsou, Lowell High School; Norman G. Levinsky, Boston Latin...