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...like hell," Regent H. J. Lutcher Stark told Rainey in 1940 when the latter refused to remove three members of the faculty without a hearing. "I doubt the wisdom and propriety of you, as president of the University, urging or suggesting that a member of the Board of Regents refrain from doing anything whatsoever," wrote Regent D. F. Strickland in 1943 to Texas' president. Under the Board's rules a university president is supposed to be the professional adviser to the Board, but for several months Texas' Regents excluded President Rainey from their sessions...
...Washington's Navy Building, the marines' clamor for carriers grew. The chorus leader: stubby, black-browed Major General Louis E. Woods, director of aviation. His best refrain: Marine airmen were better qualified to blast the way for their shipmates than flyers of any other service...
...familiar refrain came from South Bend: Notre Dame has another winner. In two games the Irish's unscored-on teen-agers had piled up 13 touchdowns, nine against Pittsburgh, four against Tulane.With the help of two bona fide Irishmen and a pair of trigger-armed passers, the Fighting Irish looked like champions as usual...
...what would Britain say? Britain had supported Tito as an expediency of Empire politics. But Tito's loyalty was to Moscow, not to London. It was sound policy for the Russians to refrain from setting up Communist governments in the Balkan states now occupied by the Red Army. In fact, the Russians were acting with ostentatious correctness. They had even asked Marshal Tito's permission before sending the Red Army across the Danube. But Britons would be less than empire builders if they were not aware that, in the cold-blooded language of politics, the Balkans had become...
...hallowed walls of F-31 are resounding with the refrain of Dave Blumberg's new song, "I Was Raised to the Tune of the Telegraph Key" or "Shoot the Loco' to me Koko." This little ditty should prove popular with all who are interested in Transportation (alias the glorification of the R.R.'s). Therefore, a conservative estimate places the net circulation of the new ballad at approximately...