Word: bennetts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...dean of the Divinity School will almost certainly be John Coleman Bennett, dean of the Faculty at Columbia University's Union Theological Seminary, it was learned yesterday...
...prominent professor at the Divinity School, who refused to be named, stated yesterday that the announcement of Bennett's appointment will be made late next spring. Bennett is scheduled to serve is Acting President of Union Theological Seminary beginning in February, when Henry Pitney Van Dusen, Union's President, will take a leave of absence for the spring term...
This week Utah's Republican Senator Wallace Bennett took up where the Watkins committee left off and authored a resolution proposing the censure of Joe McCarthy for behavior in the very recent past. The Bennett resolution said that Joe's reference to the Watkins committee as a Communist "handmaiden" and his description of the Senate censure debate as a "lynch bee" were "contrary to good morals and senatorial ethics and tend to bring the Senate into dishonor and disrepute, to obstruct the constitutional processes of the Senate and to impair its dignity." Bennett's conclusion: "Such conduct...
...been to promote talk that McCarthy, if censured, might bolt the G.O.P. to head a third party in 1956. Joe's scramble for martyrdom and his appeal over the Senate to the people were cited as evidence of the walkout possibility. It was fairly obvious that Wallace Bennett was one Re publican who held scant fear about Joe's defection...
...discouraged by resolutions from Bennett or anybody else were the Ten Million Americans Mobilizing for Justice (TIME, Nov. 29), whose efforts on Joe's behalf continued apace. Last week T.M.A.M.J. announced that it would take some ten days for a Manhattan accounting firm to tally the names on anti-censure petitions. Boys of grade-school age waved the Ten Million's petitions on New York sidewalks, and a Catholic parent wrote New York's Cardinal Spellman complaining that a nun in a Tuckahoe parochial school was soliciting signatures from fifth-grade pupils...