Word: acceptance
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Saltonstall Committee report, urging a $60,000 plaque in Memorial Church as Harvard's memorial to its World War II dead, will be presented formally to officers of the Alumni Association and the Associated Harvard Clubs tomorrow. And tomorrow the alumni officers can accept or reject the report for once...
...coming out of the regional convention at Radcliffe next weekend. Rumor has it that Northern New England's NSA people are properly fed up with caucusing and are ready to do a job. The big job on this weekend's agenda is a proposal that colleges in this area accept European displaced persons for study and research...
...crosses and the lynch mobs. No one but a fool condoned them. But what about the Negro's right to an education, a job? As far as Strom Thurmond was concerned, he would not deny the Negro the right to an education and a job. Thurmond had to accept a federal judge's decision that the Negro had a right to vote; 35,000 voted in the South Carolina primaries this year. The so-called Southern "liberal" went further: he would and did encourage the Negro to better education, to enfranchisement as a self-respecting citizen...
...Force was missing no bets. In a deal with the airlines, it offered temporary jobs in the Berlin airlift to commercial pilots laid off during the slack winter season. It expected 100 to 200 experienced C-54 pilots to accept. It was also dickering for the return of 40 C-54s leased to the airlines...
Clift recently finished his third picture, William Wyler's The Heiress. Now he is committed to Liberty Films, a Paramount subsidiary, for three more (which must be directed by Wyler, Frank Capra or George Stevens). Meanwhile, he is free to accept offers from Broadway, where he is also in great demand. One offer is for Lillian Hellman's forthcoming dramatization of the best-selling The Naked and the Dead. Clift doesn't know whether he'll do it : he hasn't seen the script...