Word: backed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Nixon added that he would be willing to call off the telecast if Morhouse insisted but would have to explain publicly just why. The point: loyal G.O.P. voters in upstate New York might well resent the cancellation, not to mention the slight to national party unity. Morhouse hurriedly called back to say go ahead with the telecast. Right on schedule, Nixon delivered his TV speech-which even stony-hearted critics ruled as the best of his political career...
...Harlem last week, New York's Governor Averell Harriman was banking on Harry Truman in a desperate effort to get back some of the votes Harriman knew Orval Faubus was costing him. If Truman had been President, said Ave to the Harlem audience, he would have sent the paratroops to Little Rock in 24 hours rather than waiting three weeks as Republican Eisenhower did. "Is that right, Mr. President?" demanded Ave in one of those of-course lines. But Truman threw away the script, ducked behind the claim that he "wouldn't have had all this trouble." Said...
...looking back over his ten-year administration at Smith, Wright reveals his bias in favor of scholarship, noting with the greatest satisfaction his extremely active role in attempting to bolster the College faculty. In the quest for the "ablest young people... we could find," Wright personally interviewed all prospective faculty members, always "trying to size people up--trying to determine whether they would make good teachers...
...careers in education behind him, Benjamin Wright prepares to begin his third. In so doing, he will be completing his own personal westward government that began with the migration from Cambridge to Northampton almost ten years ago. From scholarship to administration and back to scholarship again. Westward the course of empire...
...succeeded in spitting up the leaders. At this point, however, when the Crimson runners were feeling the pace, Yale's Carroll and Morrison slowly moved up into fourth and seventh places, passing the point-makers. Fitzgerald, who had run himself out following Benjamin eary in the race, fell back to ninth, giving the harriers sixth, eighth, ninth, and twelfth places...