Word: carr
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Shaping the Age. Though much of his own attention was concentrated on the countinghouse, Ochs also had a talent for filling his editorial offices with some of the legendary greats of journalism. From 1904 to 1932, Ochs's news columns were controlled by Managing Editor Carr Van Anda, the sort of man who could decide for himself that Britain's great new liner Titanic was not as unsinkable as all the proud publicity claimed. While other editors doubted the authenticity of the first SOS, Van Anda concluded that Titanic was indeed sinking. He deployed his staff...
...state legislatures, for legislators representing less than 20% of the U.S. population to alter the Constitution. 2) Place the apportionment of seats in state legislatures beyond the reach of the U.S. Constitution and the federal courts. This amendment would annihilate the Supreme Court's 1962 Baker v. Carr decision, which brought apportionment of state legislatures under review by federal courts...
...track at Walnut for the one-mile relay, four University of Arizona undergraduates got a gift: an autographed baton, the same one that had been carried by the U.S. Olympic relay team in 1960 when it clocked a record 3 min. 5.6 sec. Paced by Sophomore Henry Carr, who flashed through his 440-yd. leg in 45.1 sec., the Arizonans promptly ran the mile...
...climate since last summer, General Electric Chairman Ralph Cordiner says: "In mid-June through October, the economy seemed to be geared to the stock-market reaction, and people apparently lost their confidence. But that seems to be behind us now." Samuel A. Groves, president of Boston's United-Carr Fastener Corp., now sees the stage set for a move "pretty steadily-if slowly-upward." He is seconded by Raytheon Financial Vice President George Ingram Jr., who looks for "a gradual improvement this year...
...Carr's What Is History?, to be sure, never was Jewish property at all, but Allen Y. Graubard's review of the book is nevertheless the best piece of work in the issue. H. R. Trevor-Roper has already pointed out the major shortcomings of Carr's approach to history at great and devastating length in his own review of the book, but most of the points are very much worth making again, and Mr. Graubard by concentrating his fire on Carr's bandwagon dictum (that the historian is only successful who writes about and believes in the winning side...