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Theodore Roosevelt, Taft, Wilson, Harding, Coolidge and Hoover. On the desk was a little oak plaque with three black buttons on it, to summon secretaries and stenographers. But whenever Harry Truman wanted a stenographer he would jump up, rush to the door and say, "Look, I want to dictate a few letters...
Reputedly one of the richest men in the U.S., his name does not even appear in Who's Who. He keeps oak-paneled, antique-furnished offices in New York, Chicago, Hollywood, Cleveland, Dallas, San Francisco, London. As president of the Music Corp. of America, he is absolute monarch over the careers of scores of celebrated radio and cinema stars. Together with the A.F. of M.'s James ("Little Caesar") Petrillo and Music Publisher Jack Robbins, he is "the supreme court of popular music." He is a small, greying man, 49, with a soft voice and meticulous manners...
Tonight at 9 o'clock, the Radio Workshop Players will present their third production of the term. "Fumed Oak," by Noel Coward. Miss Barbara Perry, Miss Jane D. Philbin, and Miss Mary D. Sarage, all of Radcliffe, and William E. Sullivan '45 will take the leading roles...
...reflected in the eyes of some of the more confident of our brothers such as "Weeping Walter" Blatt. Of course there always will be people like the local ROTC who would dispute our primacy by having their commissioning the day before ours, but consolation will lie in our proud oak leaf insignia which, together with the Supply Corps, is 150 years old this Friday and which, incidentally, was adopted in 1785 in honor of the oaken fighting ships on which the Corps first served
...Department of Agriculture, which helped develop it. A very dilute dose (one pound of the chemical to 75 gallons of water), when sprayed on the leaves, kills the toughest U.S. weed-the perennial wild morning glory (also called bindweed). It is also deadly to poison ivy, poison oak, sumac, horse nettle, chickweed, thistles, plaintain, dandelions, ragweed. But it is harmless to animals, is not inflammable, does not corrode sprayers or reduce the fertility of the soil...