Word: birthday
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Dean says of the Birthday Cake Agency, "It was his (Burke's) obligation to try... to hold and develop jobs for needy Harvard undergraduates." But the CRIMSON said that Mr. Burke had misrepresented decisions of the Committee on Solicitation, and I cannot think that that was part of his obligation...
...Yorkers noted the day proclaimed in tribute to "that grand citizen," former Democratic Governor and U.S. Senator Herbert H. Lehman. Recuperating from a broken hip, Lehman spent his 85th birthday in a wheelchair, still enjoyed a Hotel Plaza dinner-dance for some 300 friends, a ceremony at home, then Scribner's publication of a Lehman biography by Historian Allan Nevins...
...deeply vicious slurs that Mr. Burke is a man "many will not trust" and a man who "has succumbed... to peculiar temptations," the CRIMSON cites three specific instances of alleged "indiscretions" in the management of the corporation: first, that there was administrative confusion when he tried to protect the birthday cake business in our dormitories as a business to support needy Harvard students and not outsiders; second, that he set up an Entertainment Agency in H.S.A. to promote job opportunities for student entertainers; and, finally, that H.S.A. has been subjected to legal action...
...several years now a group of students from another college have sought to cut in on the birthday cake business in the Harvard dormitories and Houses, calling themselves the "University Birthday Cake Agency." It was a part of Mr. Burke's job to try to keep this business for needy Harvard students. He may have been mistaken in seeking to preserve the business for Harvard by asking for a control on deliveries. But he was certainly not mistaken in his assumption that the College can control deliveries, as well as solicitation, if it wants to. The fact that deliveries...
...letter to parents from the HSA Birthday Cake Agency, Burke stated that competitors of HSA would not be allowed to deliver in the College dormitories. Burke later claimed that this policy had been established by the Committee on Solicitation, but other members of the Committee, the Chief of University Police, and seven Masters have denied knowledge...