Word: identities
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Married. Captain Mildred Helen McAfee, 45, director of the WAVES, pres- ident of Wellesley College; and Congregationalist Rev. Dr. Douglas Horton, 54; she for the first time, he for the second; in Jaffrey, N.H. The bridal gown had a hint of Navy rank: tailored white crepe with gold buttons and gold belt...
...Works. A.C.B.'s money-gathering technique, polished by some 2,200 campaigns, is typical of the philanthropic finance industry. Its keynote is careful organization, its first rule: set the quota just high enough. The staff organizers and publicity men are briefed by the firm pres ident on the upcoming campaign. Then an impressive committee, headed by Franklin D. Roosevelt, if possible, is lined up and plugged in press & radio...
...Senate seat he has since retained. Bounding Burt was hot stuff from the start. In late 1923, as his colleague Walsh lifted the lid of the G. 0. P.'s Teapot Dome, Senator Wheeler began to pry into the man who made Warren G. Harding Pres ident : Attorney General Harry Daugherty. Daugherty's FBI agents toothcombed Montana for Wheeler dirt; finding none, they made some, concocted a charge that Wheeler had used his Senatorial influence to obtain illegal oil leases for a client. After waiting a year for the case to come to trial, Wheeler was acquitted...