Word: bliven
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Bruce Ormsby Bliven, Jr. '37, of New York City, has been unanimously elected to succeed Douglas P. Dryer '36 as president of the Liberal Club, it was announced last night, following a meeting of the organization. Dryer submitted his resignation yesterday, explaining that the pressure of studies this year would prevent him from fulfilling adequately the responsibilities of the office...
...meeting last night, of the Harvard Liberal Club, Douglas Poole Dryer '36 of Petersburg, Virginia was elected president for the coming year. The other officers elected were Daniel Boone Schirmer '37 of Greenwich, Connecticut, vice-president; Bruce Ormsby Bliven, Jr. '37, of New York City, secretary; Aaron Jerome Himelhoch '38 of Detroit, Michigan, treasurer; and Raymond Dennett '36 of Williamstown, member of the executive committee at large...
...Bliven, the newly elected secretary, is the son of Bruce Bliven, editor of the New Republic, and was in charge of lo- cal relations in the recent conference on careers in government. Himelhoch will be remembered for his active work in the April Peace Strike...
...remarks about the Student Conference on Careers in Government in yesterday's editorial, it would be unfair not to mention the two "aides" who were most responsible for the "clockwork" which you praised. The conference would not have been so successful without the constant and persistent work of Bruce Bliven, Jr., and Ely. J. Kahn, Jr., who devoted two entire days to making arrangements, taking registration, and, on Saturday, keeping just one jump ahead of the conference. It is to them that most praise is due. Raymond Dennett...
...Bliven denounced the NRA as "the most painful and conspicuous failure of the administration," enabling manufacturers to boom prices out of properties to wages, thus weakening the nation's buying power and necessitating a drop in prices...