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According to Dabney, the report that Jefferson had fathered the children was spread in a newspaper article in 1802 by one James T. Callender, whom Dabney described as "a vicious unscrupulous drunkard" who was angry at President Jefferson for refusing to appoint him postmaster at Richmond. An Ohio newspaper revived this charge in 1873, citing what Dabney termed the "testimony of two aged blacks." Historian Malone called the testimony a contrived bit of "abolitionist propaganda...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: OPINION: Defending the Founders | 2/17/1975 | See Source »

Responding to a mixture of strong student pressure and a pledge made last spring, the Economics Department's senior faculty voted Tuesday to appoint a Marxist graduate student, William H. Lazonick, to an assistant professorship in Economics. Lazonick's appointment will formally begin on July 1, 1975 and run for five years--the maximum amount of time possible for a non-tenured position...

Author: By James I. Kaplan, | Title: Pressure Helped Bring Lazonick | 2/15/1975 | See Source »

...construct a bureaucracy, and many of them think that church movements should adopt a low profile at a time when the secular world seems hypnotized by power. Nonetheless, after days of debate in Mexico City, the committee set up a loose minimal structure. More important, they decided to appoint a full-time executive secretary and offered the job to a Third World churchman, the Rev. Gottfried B. Osei-Mensah, 40, pastor of the Nairobi Baptist Church in Kenya. Once a sales engineer with Mobil Oil in Ghana, Osei-Mensah holds a bachelor of science degree from Birmingham University and worked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Evangelicals Unite | 2/3/1975 | See Source »

...meeting last week that he scheduled to get responses from the student population on his letter, Rosovsky announced that he would soon appoint eight to ten task forces to consider questions raised by the letter...

Author: By Margaret A. Shapiro, | Title: Agreeing That Change Is Needed | 12/14/1974 | See Source »

...Cambridge Police Department, in an effort to better represent Cambridge minority groups on the force, will soon appoint five women, eight blacks and three Hispanic men, along with 20 white men, to the police force...

Author: By Sarah Crichton, | Title: City Police Force To Add Minorities | 12/3/1974 | See Source »

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