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...Museum's photographs of foreign lands have also been used to avail by the government and the demand for anthropologists has increased, Scott continued in pointing out the valuable part of the Museum has been able to play in the country's war effort in spite of the fact that the staff has been cut in half since Pearl Harbor...
...resolution was discussed with Harry Hopkins and Under Secretary of State Sumner Welles. The President approved it, in theory. But apparently the Administration was loth to touch off a Congressional debate: a little movement developed almost at once to stop the resolution's introduction. This was of no avail -Joe Ball has a hard jaw. While the resolution could never bind the Senate's vote on specific details of a peace treaty, it would be, if passed by a two-thirds majority, definite progress toward making the United Nations a positive and working organization...
Special advice for students who wish to avail themselves of opportunities to obtain academic credit at Harvard for work done in the United States Armed Forces Institute or in training courses was issued last night by Dean Hanford, chairman of the New England Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools, in a statement to the CRIMSON...
...food, the Roman Catholic Church's laws of fast and abstinence have been relaxed in various U.S. dioceses, in some just for Lent, in others for the duration. Said a typical announcement, issued by the Bishop of Albany, N.Y., the Most Rev. Edmund F. Gibson: ". . .Those who avail themselves of this dispensation should be encouraged to perform, especially during Lent, some other voluntary acts of mortification and penance...
From the Chinese Embassy in Washington came this: MANY THANKS FOR YOU TELEGRAM. MADAME CHIANG GREATLY APPRECIATES YOUR KIND INVITATION, BUT AS HER ATTENDING PHYSICIANS URGENTLY ADVISE TO REDUCE PUBLIC APPEARANCES TO A MINIMUM DURING PERIOD OF CONVALESCENCE, SHE REGRETS VERY MUCH BEING UNABLE TO AVAIL HERSELF OF THE INVITATION. CHINESE EMBASSY...