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For a year, Douglas has been trying to get the President to fill three vacancies on the Illinois federal bench, where the docket is badly overcrowded. By ancient senatorial privilege, as the state's only Democratic Senator, he is entitled to pick the men whom the President will nominate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: A Kick for the Senator | 7/23/1951 | See Source »

Back in Harness. Then Cramer made an exception about dependents on the post: he moved his wife into his quarters. She took her meals, and still does, at the staff officers' mess, the only woman to do so regularly. Men whose families lived in overpriced, ramshackle off-post homes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMED FORCES: The Troubled 43rd | 6/4/1951 | See Source »

The course is in excellent condition, extremely long, and well laid out. In addition, Ponkapoag is not generally overcrowded.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Facilities for Golf, Sailing, Tennis Are Available for Student Athletes | 5/4/1951 | See Source »

"All that you get when you travel by Sky Coach is bus service," he added. "If you are looking for a quick, dependable way to go home, Sky Coach is not the way. Where the scheduled airlines offer you plush seats, modern planes, and on-time service, the non-scheduled...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CAA Official Condemns Sky Coaches, Calls Train Travel More Dependable | 3/24/1951 | See Source »

"Cluttered & Tangled." To ex-Schoolmaster Whitman, U.S. education in the mid-19th Century was bogged down in "precedent, old times, and respectability," was "cluttered and tangled up with a thousand senseless notions and stupidities." Almost everywhere the whip was used "to crush and tame the mettlesome, soothe the feverish and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Critic of Rule & Rote | 1/8/1951 | See Source »

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