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...state chairman, the central committee chose Richard H. Balch (pronounced bawltch) a wealthy and genial fishing-tackle manufacturer from Utica. Behind Balch was the Fair Deal wing of the party, led by ailing Bronx Boss Ed Flynn, Mutual Security Director W. Averell Harriman and Representative Franklin Delano Roosevelt Jr. Behind the loser -one William H. Morgan of Cortland-was the conservative wing, led by former National Chairman and Postmaster General (1933-40) James A. Farley. After his election, Balch promptly demonstrated that his organization is still seriously divided: he hinted broadly that he didn't even consider Old Headmaster...
...everybody else, it was a tough time to be a college student. Going home for Christmas holidays, hundreds of thousands of draft-age young men on U.S. campuses were suffering from what Stanford's Counselor for Men Richard Balch labeled "draft neurosis." In its essence, their malady stemmed neither from fear nor any lack of patriotism. It was simply a form of bewilderment: they all wanted to know if they were going to be called into the Army, and if so, when. Nobody on earth could tell them...
...well as the eleventh American to win the award. Bunche's predecessors: Theodore Roosevelt, Elihu Root, Woodrow Wilson, Charles G. Dawes, Frank B. Kellogg, Nicholas Murray Butler and Jane Addams (joint winners), Cordell Hull, John R. Mott and Emily G. Balch (joint winners...
...Teachers' Union and the 1948 Socialist candidate for Vice President, and Pacifist Carleton Mabee, of the history department, winner in 1944 of the Pulitzer Prize for biography (The American Leonardo). Student intellectuals lined up behind Smith as a Student Action Committee. "The S.A.C.'s," jeered Ashbyite Clark Balch, a 30-year-old senior and football tackle, "are the kind of people who like art and music and stay up till 4 a.m. reading the classics. We like to play ball and go out on dates...
Samuel Adams II, '50, Walter E. Albrecht, Jr. '49, Franklin G. Balch III '49, William J. Barber '46, Robert E. Bayliss '50, Henry S. Bennett '49, Robert Carswell '49, Daniel A. Cronin, Jr. '50, Gerard Dawson '48, William P. Dole '49, Paul J. Douglass '50, Robert L. Fischelis '50, Jerome P. Gavin '50, Richard D. Hatton '49, John C. Hawkins '49, Arthur C. Hillwick '50, Frederick L. Holborn '49, Donald B. Louria '49, John G. Lowe, Jr. '49, John W. Mathews '50, Richard F. McGrath '49, Stedman B. Noble '49, Lawrence F. O'Donnell '49, George Putnam, Jr. '49, Norman...