Word: arn
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When Roy G. Jacobsen, 26, of Long Valley, N.J., switched from Dartmouth to Columbia University in 1951, he had some pretty exalted notions about what he was after. He wanted nothing less than to arn all about truth, understanding, integrity, enlightenment, justice, liberty, courage, honesty and critical judgment-the very virtues he saw extolled on countless plaques and friezes about Columbia's campus. But after searching for the light, first a physics and then as an English major, Jacobsen gave up. In his senior year, he flunked four courses, and the college refused to give him his degree. Last...
...Governor Edward F. Arn and two captains of Dwight Eisenhower's 1952 campaign, Senator Frank Carlson and National Committeeman Harry Darby. Arn openly and Carlson and Darby quietly backed Party Stalwart George Templar, 49, as Arn's successor. But by a margin of 15,000 votes, Templar, onetime U.S. attorney and state senator, was overpowered by the winner: scrappy, jaunty Lieutenant Governor Frederick Lee Hall...
Nominee Hall bounced into the political limelight four years ago by nosing out eight opponents in the race for lieutenant governor. In 1952 Governor Arn set out to purge Hall, ran a hand-picked candidate against him. Hall overrode the governor and won handily...
...President flew off to Amarillo, Texas for a fast personal inspection of the parched plains and a conference with the governors of six drought-ridden states: Texas' Allan Shivers, Colorado's Dan Thornton, New Mexico's Edwin Mechem, Oklahoma's Johnston Murray, Kansas' Edward Arn, Arkansas' Francis Cherry...
McCoy, who wields considerable political influence of his own in Kansas, came forward to testify that he had merely reported the facts. Lieutenant Governor Fred Hall, who leads the G.O.P. faction that bitterly opposes Carlson, Arn and Roberts, mused to reporters that in contrast to Democratic five-percenters, Roberts had turned out to be a ten-percenter. Said he: "Perhaps Wes Roberts had to show he could double a Democrat ... His conduct in this transaction was, at the very least, morally outrageous." Aging (65) Alf Landon, a member of the Hall group, charged that Roberts had "made a raid...