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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With the Senate's passage of the aid bill came word of the President's first choice as director of the arms-for-Europe program: 56-year-old James Bruce, ex-Maryland stock farmer and international banker, who recently resigned as U.S. ambassador to Argentina. If he takes the $16,000-a-year job, Bruce will direct the flow and placement of U.S. weapons in Europe as ECAdministrator Paul G. Hoffman now directs Marshall...
Harvard, with a year under Valpey since it last played Columbia, has an edge as far as experience and gridiron poise go. Columbia's defensive platoon includes five sophomores who could be fooled every so often. And there are a like number of sophs in the offensive group who haven't been playing together for very long and who probably haven't come up against a hard-charging line...
John Ciardi, Briggs-Copeland assistant professor of English Composition, and Theodore Brameld, professor of educational philosophy at New York University, disagreed with Ralph W. Sullivan, author of last year's controversial bill to remove tax exemption privileges from schools employing Communist teachers, and Isadore H. Y. Muchnick'28, formerly on the Boston City Council and at present a member of the city's School Board. The Forum was moderated by Francis Keppel'38, Dean of the Faculty of Education...
...Munro doubts that Tufts has improved enough over last year, when its varsity and freshmen lost to Harvard, 5 to 0 and 9 to 0, respectively. That is why he thinks the team can win, despite the bad luck on injuries...
...Government finished the first quarter of the new fiscal year today about $1,400,000,000 in the red--and with prospects strong for going deeper into the hole. Guesses on the budget deficit by the end of fiscal 1950 next June 30 ranged from $3,000,000,000 by an administration expert to $7,000,000,000 by Senator Harry Byrd (D.Va...