Word: c
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...linen, four segregationist members of a congressional subcommittee last week launched a windy investigation into Washington's schools. It was no secret to anyone that the D.C. schools, which started integrating two years ago, were having their troubles. But the committeemen, headed by Georgia's Representative James C. Davis,* were clearly out to make a national noise about integration-and they made some noise...
...Gotcha. His ground well prepared in advance, Subcommittee Counsel William E. Gerber of Memphis, a tough-looking, cigar-chewing product of the Crump machine, started digging for the kind of pay dirt that makes headlines. Presenting President C. Melvin Sharpe of the District board of education with a stack of papers and statistics he had not had a chance to read, Gerber started firing leading questions (and got his witness so befuddled that he once stated he agreed with Gerber's "testimony"), finally pried out an admission that "present events indicate if we had been more moderate we would...
...year Fight. The man who gets credit for pushing the waterway to completion was a pioneering Victoria, Texas banker named C. S. E. Holland, who spent most of his life fighting for a cheap way to carry the Gulf Coast's raw materials north in return for needed manufactured goods. Forming the Intracoastal Canal Association with the help of another hard-driving businessman named Roy Miller, he badgered a reluctant Congress into shelling out funds over a period of 40 years, first for a short, 53-mile strip in Louisiana barely 40 ft. wide, 5 ft. deep, later...
...addition of women to the College would favorably influence the academic training of Yale," stated Dean of Admissions Arthur Howe, Jr. His proposal for the admission of women was seconded by William C. Devane, Deane of the College...
...least one finalist in the Miss 'Cliffe contest was a Phi Beta Kappa. Betsy C. Ross '55 received this scholastic honor, as well as the honor of being a member of the executive board of the Student Government Association...