Word: belden
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...state control of polls, or outlawing them altogether, but that would probably amount to unconstitutional censorship of what has become a lively branch of journalism. Polls are here to stay, and pollsters have an obligation to make them even more honest and accurate. Gallup, Roper, Crossley, Mervin Field, Joe Belden and others have begun a drive for self-regulation, calling on their colleagues to disclose exactly what question was put to how many people, as well as when and where...
Died. Clarence Belden Randall, 76, elder statesman of the steel industry, who was president (1949-53) and board chairman (1953-56) of Chicago's Inland Steel Co., No. 7 U.S. producer, but was better known as a forwardthinking internationalist, championing the Marshall Plan as its first steel ad viser and in 1953 heading Eisenhower's Foreign Economic Policy Commission which convinced Congress to take a few halting steps to lower U.S. trade barriers; of a heart attack; in Ishpeming, Mich...
...William Belden Noble Lectures have only twice been given by an active politician. Theodore Roosevelt '80 who delivered the series of three lectures in 1910 was an experienced bible-thumper as well as a politician, and his reputation was not at all incompatible with the founder's aims for the lectures: "To arouse in young men, and primarily in the men of Harvard University, the joy of service for Christ and humanity, especially in the ministry of the Christian Church...
...Eugene J. McCarthy (D-Minn.) gave his third and final William Belden Noble Lecture last night and finaly discussed the issue his audience had been waiting for -- the war in Vietnam...
...second of his three William Belden Noble Lectures on "Religion and Politics," McCarthy said that corruption cannot be reduced until the moral level of the entire society is raised, and until we "accept the idea that there is a special obligation attached to holding a public office...