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...goes, with Harry Zinder and Fillmore Calhoun waiting in the Middle East for the British Ninth Army to start its long-looked-for move into the Balkans-with William Fisher and James Shepley in India and Teddy White in Chungking, waiting for Lord Louis Mountbatten to take the offensive in the East-with William Walton and Wilmott Ragsdale, waiting in Britain to cross the channel with the American and British Armies when the day comes for a Western Front in Europe...
...President Andrew Jackson broke with Vice President John Calhoun, drove all Calhoun followers out of the Cabinet. But the two had never been close as friends or as political thinkers...
John Darr Calhoun (Geological Sciences), Philip Davis (Mathematics), Edward Thomas Downing (Electronic Physics), Matthew Page Gaffney, Jr. (Mathematics), Winston Slover Lucke (Engineering Sciences), Maynard Malcolm Miller (Geological Sciences), Theodore Hubert Plant (Sociology), Paul McCullough Sutton (Physics), William Frederick Weeks, Jr. (Architectural Sciences...
Died. Daniel Calhoun ("Uncle Dan") Roper, 76, old-line Democrat who became the first New Deal Secretary of Commerce (1933-38); of leukemia; in Washington. Son of a Marlboro, S.C. Confederate officer, he began his political career with a congressional clerkship during Cleveland's second administration. As Wilson's Commissioner of Internal Revenue, he was the first to fail at Prohibition enforcement. As Roosevelt's Secretary of Commerce, the oldtime Methodist dry became a butt of brain-trusters, but did a good job of placating big business with speeches as tasty as the famous watermelons he served...
ROME Fillmore Calhoun, TIME'S correspondent in Rome until the "stab-in-the-back...