Word: chair
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...into the conference room for their 44th, and final, session at 4 p.m., everything had been said that could be said. Molotov plodded over the familiar ground, trying to explain Russia's refusal to join the U.S. in a 40-year demilitarization treaty on Germany. Bevin, in the chair, looked at Marshall. "Any comment?" he asked. "No comment," said Marshall. Molotov again summed up Russia's demands for all property seized by the Germans in Austria. "Any comment?" asked Bevin. "No comment," said Marshall...
...famed, longtime (1920-41) warden of New York's Sing Sing* Prison; of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Garrison, N.Y. Jailer-Author Lawes (Twenty Thousand Years In Sing Sing), a foe of capital punishment, was required by his job to witness 303 executions, bowed his head when the electric chair's 2,000 volts jolted out a human life...
...religious scholars were predestined to go begging, Harvard divinity history portends the present low tide of endowments. It is true that the University owes its origin to the desire to feed Puritan pulpits and, significantly or not, the first faculty chair was the Holis Professorship of Divinity (1721); but the non-sectarian aspect of a Harvard divinity education can be identified with the College trend toward liberalism, as early as President Leverett's administration in the beginning of the eighteenth century. In fact, the Hollis chair, even though used for Congregationalist ends, was donated by a Baptist...
Alone among the Dominion's leading newspapers, the Montreal Star supported Good Neighbor Vandenberg: "Many of our interests run with those of the union. We weaken our position by our lack of membership." The Government long ago decided that it would not occupy the 22nd chair until the people of Canada prodded it, and last week there was little prodding. The Ottawa Journal epitomized the Dominion's attitude: "Wouldn't it be better for us to stand aloof-working with nobody in particular, but the friends...
...widow of Kaiser Wilhelm II, did some reminiscing. "The Kaiser," she recalled, "was a wonderful man . . . very sad about the [second] war, and detested and distrusted Hitler." She herself was living in Frankfurt an der Oder in the Russian zone. She had "lost everything" except two tables and a chair, but she is still addressed by close friends as "Your Majesty...