Word: meade
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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William Palson, who finished 200 yards ahead of the field in the Yearling race, was elected captain of the 1944 team after the meet. The next three places were snared by Tim Coggeshall, Marsh Hughes and Robert Mead in that order...
Last week came the time to nominate a Republican to run for the Senate seat now occupied by toothy, handshaking James M. Mead, Buffalo Democrat who helped Jim Farley parcel out post offices in the House until Senator-Doctor Royal S. Copeland's death in June 1938 brought him promotion. Tom Dewey's professional friends got together to plan the biennial Republican defeat. Kenneth Simpson was not consulted. Tom Dewey didn't want the job, said he couldn't afford the financial sacrifice (Senate salary: $10,000). Hopefully the G. 0. P. bosses scanned the list...
...CYPRESS - Agatha Christie- Dodd, Mead ($2). Hercule Poirot bends his egg-shaped head to freeing Elinor Carlisle, accused of murdering the lodge-keeper's fetching daughter with a fishpaste sandwich. Good smooth Poirot...
...commission announced that Mr. Knudsen had painstakingly passed on $1,000,000,000 of equipment contracts. Aircraft Coordinator George Jackson Mead placed $100,000,000 of plane orders, got tape-wound Army & Navy bureaus to simplify their contradictory, wasteful systems of testing and buying planes and engines. Commissioner Stettinius cheerily reviewed his studies of raw materials which the U. S. would need and might not have in wartime, said: "The situation . . . is more hopeful than we anticipated six weeks ago. . . ." For an example of heartening speed, he told of hearing about a stock of tungsten and antimony "near Indo-China...
Last week scholarly Dr. Edward Mead Earle-World War I veteran, distinguished diplomatic historian, professor at Princeton's Institute for Advanced Study -crammed into a letter to the New York Times the urgent thoughts that many a citizen has been thinking about U. S. Defense. Excerpts: "The United States must be prepared immediately to defend with its own resources, alone and unaided, not only continental United States but all, or considerable portions, of the Western Hemisphere. . . . We must proceed on the assumption that we shall have to go it alone. We cannot afford the luxuries of business as usual...