Word: allens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Responses to the letters sent out by the Harvard Committee in July and again in late September have fallen into three categories-colleges with organizations exactly patterned on that here, colleges with strong William Allen White Committees, and colleges who are cooperating with the government through scientific and technical groups working on defense problems...
...both Yale and Princeton, William Allen White Committees to Defend America are powerful. Not nearly as extensive in scope as the organization here, they are more firmly united in support of a single minded policy and work much more closely with the town...
...more Big Name to President Roosevelt's imposing defense corps did not surprise Army men. They knew furthermore that, if the President had elected to put an officer in charge, he would have had to make the difficult choice between Lieut. Colonel Hershey and Judge Advocate General Allen W. Gullion, who topped Lewis Hershey in rank if not in knowledge of the draft. Military men also understood that a civilian director was in keeping with U. S. tradition and with a basic conscription principle: to keep the Army as far as possible from civilian draftees until they are actually...
...Barr & colleagues combed a list of 300 critics, eventually chose as the program's regulars Princeton's Novelist-Poet Allen Tate, Columbia's Pulitzer Prize Poet Mark Van Doren, and Huntington Cairns, assistant general counsel of the U. S. Treasury. Chairman and star performer was Mr. Cairns, who in his spare time speaks 15 languages, reads omnivorously, likes to play the abstruse Japanese game...
...publication of the paper marks the coming of age of the League and the end of the debate over policy. The front new presented is more moderate than indicated at early meetings, following very closely the pattern of the William Allen White Committee...