Word: bequestioned
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...Bequest. The dominant figure on the permanent White House staff is Executive Assistant William J. Hopkins, 58, a bald, self-effacing factotum who joined Herbert Hoover in 1931, and has been the presidential office manager since 1943. Hopkins commands a crew of 255 secretaries, stenographers, messengers and telephone operators. He is, says Lyndon Johnson, "an indispensable instrument" to the management of the presidency...
...against a gold background, and a Rembrandt is close to a Persian miniature. The exhibit (and Coolidge's purchasing pattern) is heavy on 17th century Dutch works because few gifts have been received from that period, and light on Impressionist paintings, which Harvard received in abundance from the Wertheim bequest...
...Johnson was the evidence that his "squealers and jumpers" were growing up and drifting away from him. Since 1964, at least 12.6 million Americans have reached voting age, and Bobby once laid claim to a large percentage of them. "Kennedy thinks that American youth belongs to him as the bequest of his brother," noted ardently pro-McCarthy Columnist Mary McGrory. "Seeing the romance flower between them and Mc Carthy, he moved with the ruthlessness of a Victorian father whose daughter has fallen in love with a dustman." McCarthy was not about to submit meekly. The morning after the election...
...University established the Center in November, 1965, under a $7.2-million bequest from the estate of Annielouise Bliss Warren, widow of Charles Warren '89, member of the Board of Overseers and a distinguished lawyer and legal historian. According to the Center's director, Oscar Handlin, Charles Warren Professor of American History, the history department had been considering such a project for a number of years before the gift was made...
...Warren bequest established four endowed professorships loosely affiliated with the Center which, when filled, may broaden the range of instruction in American history. When Handlin was named to the Warren professorship of American history, Bernard Bailyn filled the Winthrop chair vacated by Handlin, in turn freeing history department funds for a possible additional professorship. However, even if another tenured position is added to the history department, a new professor might not be in the American field...