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Myron P. Gilmore, associate professor of History, has taken over the chairmanship of the Department of History and Literature. He succeeds Elliott Perkins '23, who resigned over the summer after a long and successful career as chairman...
...wasn't until March 20, 1924 that the fund drive Dean Donham called for got underway. However, under the chairmanship of the late William Lawrence. Bishop of Massachusetts, the campaign was unexpectedly concluded in little more than a month when the late George F. Baker, chairman of the First National Bank of New York, wrote the University offering $5,000,000 if he could "have the privilege of building the whole school...
Under the chairmanship of Perry G. E. Miller, professor of American Literature, talks that were supposed to last 40 minutes lasted 40 minutes, rather than an hour. Commentary was commentary--not an independent speech. Distinctions were well drawn, the participants kept close to the issues, and there were no heated exchanges with the suggestion of blows to follow...
...Kefauver Committee invited him to appear in Miami and testify. He refused. Angrily, the committee, now organized under the chairmanship of Maryland's Senator Herbert O'Conor, who was once a governor himself, slapped a subpoena on the governor, ordering him to show up in Washington this week. Warren challenged the committee's power to remove him from Florida and thus "restrain me from the discharge of my responsibilities as chief executive of a sovereign state." He appealed for advice to South Carolina's Governor James Byrnes, onetime Supreme Court Justice, and got some support...
...Army-group levels, it comes at a moment in Bradley's career when its immediate interest lies in the picture it gives of its author. Bradley found time to write A Soldier's Story while on active duty in the world's top military job, the chairmanship of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff, during one of the crises of world history. At a publisher's cocktail party in Manhattan, Bradley emphasized that he had aimed to write a "readable" book. As generals' books go (and with some help from his old friend and military...