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...managers got word from Governor Tom in Albany. His man for the Senate now was 50-year-old Irving M. Ives, a veteran of World War I, majority leader of the State Assembly, dean of Cornell University's School of Industrial and Labor Relations. Dewey's nod to Ives put a fatal chill on the boosters for Major General "Wild Bill" Donovan (TIME, Sept. 2). A respected legislator, with a good record on labor relations, Mr. Ives grasped his opportunity gratefully...
...days later a more damaging blow came from Albany, was promptly reported by New York political writers: the Republican State Executive Committee had given the nod for the nomination to Lieut. General Hugh A. Drum. Longtime (44 years) professional soldier, Hugh Drum was head of the U.S. First Army until he retired in 1943, is now commander of New York's State Guard, had accompanied Tom Dewey on his 1944 campaign trip. The word from Albany seemed, in effect, to sew the nomination up for General Drum (who is Al Smith's successor as head of the Empire...
...entire half-mile course Day and Simmons rowed almost stroke for stroke, and when they shot across the finish line, Coach Blake Dennison gave the nod to Day by less than 18 inches...
...each member enters the chamber, he bows once to the speaker of the house (who is the referee) and upon receiving an acknowledging nod, takes his seat. Work begins at once, (the House meets daily at two-thirty in the afternoon and often works past midnight). A printed list of questions is in the hand of each member. On the list are the questions, the member asking the question, and the cabinet member to whom the question is addressed. An average day sees 100 questions asked, and since the answers have been prepared in advance in writing, the cabinet officer...
...examine a shrub or gaze speculatively at one of the old buildings, and passers-by can detect bits of conversation that pass between the stroller and some invisible colleague. Indeed, at certain points, the figure seems to stop and engage in lengthy discourse with himself, ending abruptly with a nod of decision and a hurried resumption of his path toward Lehman Hall. The early morning boulevardier is Aldrich Durant, Business Manager of the University and his invisible colleague might well be the spiritual embodiment of the Harvard Corporation, which has saddled this shrewd Yankee with a thankless job that...