Word: meade
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...busy day. Never a man to lie late abed, the new President was up at 6:30, breakfasted in his apartment with his old friend Hugh Fulton, the ex-Wall Street lawyer who had been counsel, investigator and workhorse for the Truman (now Mead) investigating committee (see below). At 9, President Truman was ready to go to the White House...
Married. Rose Bingham Fiske, 32, slender, pretty widow of Pilot Officer William Mead Lindley Fiske, champion Olympic bobsledder and first American to die flying for the R.A.F. in World War II (1940); and Lieut. Colonel John Charles Arthur Digby Lawson, 32, elder son of Sir Digby Lawson, second baronet; he for the first time, she (once the Countess of Warwick) for the third; in London...
High Production. The Army, which had considered leaving all of its equipment in Europe and sending out new tanks and guns to the Pacific, quietly dropped that plan; the Senate's Mead Committee sharply reminded the Army that Congress would not stand...
...George F. Zook, President of the American Council on Education, talking on "The Role of the Federal Government in Education"; Lt. Colonel Herbert G. Espy of the Army's Education Branch, talking on war veterans; Professor Hugh W. Babb of Boston University on the Russian experiment in government; Margaret Mead, Executive Secretary, National Research Council, on intercultural understanding...
...examples crowded the Committee's reports. While one arm of the Government tried to dispose of 31,000,000 surgical dressings recently, another agency called loudly for 47,000,000 of the same dressings. Unfortunately, they could not hear each other. Spurred to crackdown action last week, the Mead Committee wanted to know why. Said Chairman Mead, warning agencies to get their faces ready for future, painful scrutiny...