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...forced back by the Japanese, Chiang gave old friend Chang the job of getting remote Szechwan province under control, in preparation for moving the capital to Chungking. He made Chang, himself a Szechwanese, the governor. But the close-knit Szechwan old guard refused to accept Chang. Thereupon the Generalissimo assumed the title of governor himself, worked Chang in as special assistant, and in 1940 slipped out from under, leaving Chang in charge...
...many is a trivial idea, is only possible in a smaller, more homogeneous student group. That is why many of the New England women's colleges can dispense with proctors. Of the men's colleges in which the undergraduate is put on his honor, Virginia is a closely-knit state college, while Princeton and Williams are considerably smaller and less varied in student types than Harvard...
...first entered the White House. But it now revolves around a brand-new operating routine. The old days of government by cronies are gone, and so are most of the cronies (Jake Vardaman, Ed McKim, John Caskie Collet, George Allen, et al.). The President now has a new, tightly knit staff and a new administrative procedure which makes full use of his Cabinet...
...father's shy reserve nor her mother's dazzling charm. Last week, as she stood unobtrusively at her father's elbow, she frequently seemed plain bored. But those who looked sharp could catch an occasional rare smile, lighting her face like a searchlight, or see her knit her brow in sober perplexity over some paradox of Empire in an official's talk...
Dunster House has been compared by its members to the state of Texas in its self-sufficient attitude toward the rest of the University. Physically the most isolated of the Houses, and injected with the most rambunctious and tightly-knit spirit, residents scorn secession from their neighbors, sure in the conviction that the summer winds blow cooler and the proctor's beer flows freer...