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Dean achieved distinction of a sort at birth: he weighed an extraordinary 11 lbs.,* and he was delivered into the world by a veterinarian. He started school with the second grade, skipping the first because he had already learned to read by poring over his brothers' schoolbcoks. Term after term, his report cards showed nearly all A's. A Boys' High School teacher recalls him as "one of the few students I came across in 45 years of teaching who seemed to be born mature and adequate to any situation." The 1925 high school yearbook records that...
...Stabilization. At war's end he fought successfully to keep controls on wages and prices in the name of an orderly transition to a peacetime economy; as a result, he amassed one army of bitter conservative enemies and another of happy liberal disciples. After one earnest but tactless term as Governor of Connecticut (1949-51), he was defeated for reelection, got a Truman appointment as Ambassador to India...
...fight and chided Freeman's poor judgment in sending state militia to close a strikebound Wilson & Co. Inc. meat-packing plant, an action reversed in federal court. Upshot: Freeman lost by 23,000 votes to Republican Newcomer Elmer Andersen, while Friend Hubert Humphrey was winning a third Senate term and Jack Kennedy was carrying the state...
...uranium industry was only a fledgling operation in 1949 when the U.S. Public Health Service, aware that lung cancer was striking down European uranium miners, decided to launch a quiet, long-term study of workers in the ore-rich Colorado Plateau mines. Last week the PHS's Dr. Harold J. Magnuson, results in hand, dashed to Denver for an emergency meeting with four Western Governors. The news he carried was alarming: the death rate from lung cancer among uranium miners is five times as great as that of U.S. men in general...
...Herald, claim that the General Court is the proper and most responsible body to make reforms. Still, the 13 amendments passed by the General Court since 1919 have been piecemeal revision, and the major ones that have gotten by one session, for instance the 4-year gubernatorial term, have perished the following year. Political interest and inertia make the Legislature a dubious source of initiative for reform...