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Memories of the exuberant meeting of Soviet and U.S. soldiers at the Elbe River in April 1945 faded rapidly from American minds as the U.S.S.R. moved to consolidate its control over the countries of Eastern Europe that had been liberated by the Red Army. Coined in 1946 by Herbert Bayard Swope, a journalist and sometime speechwriter for Philanthropist Bernard Baruch, the term cold war became synonymous with the tensions of the post-World War II era. During a speech at Westminster College in Fulton, Mo., in 1946, Winston Churchill provided another image for the new age. "From Stettin...
Others disagree. Officials of the National Urban League, one of the eight sponsors of the 1963 march, declined to join in this time, saying they feared that its "focus on a broad range of issues is likely to limit its impact." Bayard Rustin, stage manager of the original event, was another prominent no-show in 1983. Some Jewish organizations, angered by language in an early version of a march manifesto implying disapproval of the level of U.S. arms shipments to Israel, also decided to withhold support. In the end, however, the offending passages were toned down...
...married to Leonard W. Cronkhite a nuclear scientist and business man died in 1947 Cronkhite is survived by three step children. Bayard Morse of Rockport Mass Dr. Leonard W. Cronkhite Jr. of Wauwatosar Wisc and Elizabeth Minot of Cambridge eight grandchildren and two great grandchildren
...weeks ago the store front on West Congress St. that now boasts brilliant red and white bunting and the omniscient countenance of John Bayard Anderson looked like many others in Detroit--broken glass, beer bottles and splintered plywood showcased behind a smudged display window...
...Bayard Rustin, civil rights leader--Doctor of Laws...