Word: posting
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...same time, the council chose E. Langdon Burwell '41 to serve as next year's treasurer succeeding Douglas Mercer '40, while Seth C. Crocker '41 was named Secretary, a post now held by Frederick Holdsworth, Jr. '40, Eugene D. Keith '42 will serve as Student Council Representative in Charge of Freshman Affairs...
...natural that the post-war disillusionment of my own generation should have induced many of us to emphasize the failures of the Versailles settlement and that, by implication, we should have suggested to generations of undergraduates that war is scarcely an instrument designed to achieve the political slogans which accompany it. I have no doubt that many students enlarged this view and came to the conclusion that war is futile and that Europe's troubles...
...Manhattan. Pack jammed aboard her were 2,000 U. S. refugees fleeing from the wrath to come. They had paid $200 to $360 for their passages, were glad indeed to get space in crowded cabins or cots in the ship's palm court, grand salon, playroom, gymnasium, post office. Among the passengers were: > Forty dogs, whose accommodations included artificial tree trunks. > New York Timesman Harold Denny's wife and her dog, which understands Russian only; beauteous Mrs. Eric Sevareid, wife of CBS's Paris correspondent, and her month-old twins; a weeping woman who had to leave...
...behalf of the industry, had two weeks ago demanded that exports of U. S. scrap be limited. Such regulations need not hurt the Allies, who buy mostly finished steel and steel products, but to impose it now would be about as useful as locking a barn door ex post facto...
...market player has to be punchdrunk and nearly broke to cheer when the ticker tape stops moving. But last week such an intermission was welcome to the Street. The market turned on its side (at around 115 on the Dow-Jones industrials average) and lay still. Wrote New York Post Columnist Samuel Grafton: "The 'better technical position' assumed by the investor consists of his lying flat on his back in the gutter with one foot on the curb, his eyes closed and his mouth open. In this position he neither buys nor sells, and so is described...