Word: austine
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Announcing the next meeting large placards demanded: "Is Harvard Sabotaging its Football Team?" This drew a lethargic group of 35 who heard Boston sports columnist Austin Lake declare that Harvard's "organized apathy" was caused by an athletic policy controlled by "Wall Street alumni favorable toward crew." Several people aroused themselves enough to refute this, but Lake said, "Sorry, boys, time to go," and left before debate began. The dominant group at this meeting was the "independent" faction which felt it could not fit into the official "Conservative" or "Liberal" categories. By the following Fall it was possible to count...
Many students admitted they are not concerned with the legal view of Tufts' claim since the legal documents concerning the School's establishment are too "vague" to build a case on for either side. Under the terms of the bequest of Austin B. Fistcher...
Texas Senator Lyndon Johnson, then still in the hospital after a heart attack, to visit Johnson's 300-acre ranch near Stonewall (66 miles west of Austin...
...Austin's Commodore Perry Hotel, Adlai Stevenson spent 35 minutes closeted with senior Texas Democrat and House Speaker Sam Rayburn. That night, at the university, Stevenson's subject was "America, the Economic Colossus." Stevenson had some doubts about the colossus. Said he: "I am not a prophet of gloom. I am not a prophet of any kind whatever. Nonetheless, I groaned the other day when a leading politician said with glee, 'Everything is booming but the guns.' I wish people would take less interest in booms and more in stability-in making good conditions last...
...special meeting in Austin of insurance commissioners from Oklahoma, Kansas, Texas, Arkansas. Nebraska and Wyoming, Service Fire's Counsel J. G. Myerson showed up to discuss the complaint. Service Fire had not come to apologize for any mistakes, said Myerson. In fact, he said, his company's biggest mistake was in rebating the Texas overcharges and "it's not going to be the story elsewhere...