Word: follower
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...time," as a today for which there is no tomorrow. If we do, we ourselves and the nation as a whole become psychologically unprepared both for the combat and for the peace and social reconstruction which must be made to follow it. Whatever the economic and political reasons driving us to war, if to war we go, the foremost consideration will be, for many, the belief that this is a struggle to continue civilization and humanistic values. For us to begin that struggle by scuttling the chance for a liberal-arts education, and by pursuing instead a "tonight he merry...
...Following the initial toils of the opening day in Memorial Hall and the Yard, the Freshmen will troop to the Union where they will be entertained with a buffet supper. Welcoming speeches by President Conant, Richard M. Gummeree, Chairman of the Board of Admissions, and Christian Herter '15, Speaker of the Massachusetts House of Representatives, will follow dinner...
...National Chairman and Republican leader in the House, looms large in the campaign. Joe Martin barely waited to get out of Rushville before announcing that 1) he had not made up his own mind about conscription, 2) he did not expect other Republicans in Congress to follow their candidate automatically on this and other issues. Mr. Martin's No. 1 candidate proceeded on the assumption that more voters were interested in Wendell Willkie than in the discontents of politicos...
...Franklin Roosevelt. According to Wasington observers, the untied shoestring he tripped on was his tactless handling of Democratic bigwigs at the Convention in Chicago. Harry Hopkins, it was said, would be more useful promoting Term III from a less conspicuous place; the resignation of Under Secretary Ed Noble (to follow Willkie's banner) precipitated the need for an overhauling in the Commerce Department. Nobody, in or out of Washington, supposed that Mr. Hopkins' resignation was a surprise to the President. Franklin Roosevelt warmly wrote back to his Dear Harry...
...Herbert Mendelson's brand-new Notre Dame, successor to the original Notre Dame that won the 1937 race. Sentimentalists hoped that Gar Wood Jr., driving his little Tinker Toy (a converted 18-ft. runabout with which he was making his debut in big-time inboard racing), might follow in the wake of his famed father, four-time Gold Cup winner...