Word: adamses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Who Was Kleist? When Krock joined The Times, in 1927, he was al ready a leading figure in American journalism. He had been shot at while covering Kentucky elections for the Associated Press in 1909, challenged to a duel for insulting a French newspaperman in Paris in 1918 ("Somehow, I...
OF COURSE, a man with a title can be controversial, and even Harvard's ultra-safe policy can backfire. Back in 1833, for example, the Harvard Corporation felt compelled to grant a degree to President Andrew Jackson when Jackson made a trip to Boston. The members of the Corporation disagreed...
On behalf of us graduate students, I would submit that, like those at Berkeley, Wisconsin, and Michigan, we do our best. We are very sorry, those of us who love to teach, that we have to devote so much time to the furtherance of our careers and personal lives. But...
More trouble developed in 1824. With the Federalist Party all but dead, the presidential vote split among four Democrats. Kentucky's Henry Clay and Georgia's William H. Crawford each won 13% of the popular vote, and their electoral votes were enough to deny a majority to Andrew...
Nearly a century ago, Sam Tilden made light of his electoral loss by saying: "I shall receive from posterity the credit of having been elected to the highest position in the gift of the people, without any of the cares and responsibilities of the office." It is doubtful if a...