Word: warden
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Thirty-nine members of the University Auxiliary Fire Department received their certificates last night from Aldrich Durant '02, business manager and chief warden of the College, at a dinner in honor of the Harvard fire fighters...
...boisterous near-riot of San Quentin's 4,000-odd convicts one somber Sunday afternoon almost twelve months ago made able Warden Clinton Truman Duffy grin with pride. Reason: the Japs had just attacked Pearl Harbor; the convicts, swarming around him in the "Big Yard," were patriotically clamoring for immediate revenge...
They are getting it. Warden Duffy went after war contracts;* today San Quentin works eight hours a day instead of the traditional six, tops U.S. prisons in war production...
...Buster") Haley is a Negro convict who may never get out (he got a life sentence in 1932 for murder), but he is a war worker, too. Recently he wrote a letter to Franklin Roosevelt: "I told him he was just about the best man there is excepting the warden. I told him I wanted to see my boys. My boys are in the Army and I figured they was going to send my boys over the sea. President Roosevelt wrote back and said he'd have the Adjutant General look into it. An' now my boys...
Dmitri Shostakovich: Fifth Symphony (Cleveland Orchestra, Artur Rodzinski conducting; Columbia; 10 sides). Most popular of Fire Warden Shostakovich's big, embattled symphonies, the Fifth has already been recorded by Stokowski and the Philadelphians for Victor. The Clevelanders do a brilliant job, but Stokowski's recording is still tops...