Word: witt
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...charges, which include veterans in all parts of the University, now number something over 7,000--only 2,000 below the peak of 1946-47. His office is the channel for about ten million dollars a year in government payment for education and subsistence. Although his assistant, Miss Margaret Witt, handles nine-tenths of the routine red tape difficulties familiar to all veterans, there are enough left over to keep him busy six days a week. "Just when you think you've got everything caught up and running on schedule, the top blows off some new problem and before...
...called because the original settlement, De-Witt's Corner, was moved two miles due west early in the 19th Century...
...Senator Claude Pepper and West Virginia's Harley Kilgore)-were among those previously named by Courier Elizabeth Bentley TIME, Aug. 9). Chambers had other names: Lee Pressman, onetime New Deal legal eagle, later C.I.O. counsel and currently one of Henry Wallace's left-hand men; Nathan Witt, onetime secretary for the National Labor Relations Board; Henry Collins (ex-Agriculture Department); Donald Hiss, who left the State Department...
...themselves usually elected by their state legislatures). Even after the two-party system began to develop, candidates of both parties were simply named by the members of Congress, meeting in party caucus. But in 1812 the Federalists summoned party delegates to a New York City convention and nominated De Witt Clinton (defeated in the election by the Democratic-Republicans' James Madison). By 1832 the revolution against King Caucus was complete. Meeting in Baltimore, Democratic and National Republican conventions nominated Andrew Jackson and Henry Clay. The convention system was here to stay...
Miss Margaret Witt, Weld Hall veteran of check disorders, said that to save tmie the Boston Finance Division of the Veterans Administration eliminated the award notice telling each veteran how much money he was entitled to. Finance then sent out $65 checks to all, intending to make up the difference by December...