Word: chairman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...from the start the open hearing was unexpectedly rough. Out of the blue, Arkansas' Democrat William Fulbright, committee chairman, began carping about the witness' G.O.P. partisanship in old political speeches. Then Wayne Morse took over. He lashed at Mrs. Luce's statement, voiced during the 1944 presidential campaign, that Franklin Roosevelt was "the only American President who ever lied us into a war because he did not have the political courage to lead us into it." Witness Luce conceded to Morse that "the language was very intemperate, and would not have been used...
...whether she can now hope to accomplish the delicate mission assigned to her by the President in a climate of uneasiness which the smears and suspicions have created . . . Senator Wayne Morse and others have devoted themselves to undermining Mrs. Luce's usefulness. Senator Morse happens to be the chairman of the Foreign Relations Subcommittee, which has cognizance of inter-American affairs and Brazil...
...which he is groping to describe, and one is willing to forgive the pedantic local professor who gives the geological facts about the town, the "questions from the audience," and the rambling generalizations of Editor Webb of The Sentinel. Like a New England town meeting, the play has a chairman, an avowed purpose, and a sense that everyone in the audience must cooperate...
About the curriclum, one faculty member asserted that it was too cut-and-dried, with little encouragement of exploration or treatment of sensitive topics. "They're usually leery of any topic that doesn't have a long critical bibliography," he added. Commenting on this, Professor Ferdinand J. Denbeaux, chairman of the Bible department (Biblical history is the only specific course requirement at the college), stated that suprisingly enough his discipline was the only one in the college which studied Freud...
Preliminary results indicate that the Democrats interviewed tend to regard their party as "the working man's," while most of the Republicans consider theirs "the party of prosperity." Republicans see more faults in their own party than Democrats do in theirs, according to Richard A. Derham '62, chairman of the project...