Word: aikens
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...John Foster Dulles was pale and drawn. He had met not only the care ful, concerned sort of questions that the Senate is duty-bound to ask. but also the hectoring and badgering of a small group of Democrats who launched what Vermont's mild-mannered Republican George Aiken called "a concerted effort to destroy you politically and personally...
...ARCULARIS: A PLAY IN Two ACTS (83 pp.)-Conrad Aiken-Harvard Uni versity...
Died. Albert. Johnson, 87, longtime (1913-33) Republican Representative from Washington who co-authored (with the late Senator David Aiken Reed) the U.S.'s restrictive 1924 immigration law (superseded in 1952 by the McCarran-Walter Act), which limited all immigration to 2% per year of the foreign-born from each country in the U.S.'s 1890 population, set up a quota system (effective in 1930) to stem the inflow from Southern Europe and Asia; of a heart attack; in American Lake. Wash...
...American Academy of Arts and Letters, whose hallowed niches are normally restricted to a full complement of 50 members, took in two more of the elite, to raise its roster to 49: Harvard-educated, Pulitzer Prizewinning Poet Conrad (A Letter from Li Po) Aiken, 67, and Russian-born Composer Igor (The Firebird) Stravinsky, a U.S. citizen since...
Wassily Leontief, professor of Economics, will be chairman of the committee, which includes Howard Aiken, Director of the Computation Laboratory and professor of Applied Mathematics, and E. Bright Wilson, professor of Chemistry...