Word: chamberlaine
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...treasury paid $250 to a Baptist ministers conference, something like $1,000 apiece to two Baptist ministers who agreed to work for the candidate. Three Negro athletes also received several hundred dollars apiece for posing for promotional pictures: Timmy Brown, a halfback for the Philadelphia Eagles; Wilt ("The Stilt") Chamberlain, a center for the 76ers basketball team; and Ira Davis, an Olympic track star. In his own defense, Shapp testified that the players had volunteered, and that he was surprised when he was asked to pay them...
During the fall of 1916 and the winter of 1917 the issue had changed from "should the U.S. prepare?", to "how should the U.S. prepare?", and the dispute between the preparers and the pacifists flared up again. It was at this time that the Senate began to discuss the Chamberlain Bill, calling for universal military service. Many Harvard organizations, including the Student Council and the CRIMSON, supported conscription, but pacifist organizations from several Eastern universities, including Harvard, sent delegations to the Senate committee which was hearing testimony on the Bill. Speaking for the International Polity Club, several Harvard students told...
...number of Harvard students sent a letter to President Wilson in May of 1915 supporting his isolationist stand, and denouncing blind or pyrotechnic patriotism. was at this time that the Senate began to discuss the Chamberlain Bill, calling for universal military service. Many Harvard organizations, including the Student Council and the CRIMSON, supported conscription, but pacifist organizations from several Eastern universities, including Harvard, sent delegations to the Senate committee which was hearing testimony on the Bill. Speaking for the International Polity Club, several Harvard students told the committee that the voluntary system of service had proved adequate and that...
...Rusk fails to observe the fact that Khrushchev, in a thermonuclear age, was operating under different conditions than Hitler. Had Chamberlain opposed Hitler at Munich, there very likely would have been war just the same. There may be important lessons to be learned from Munich, but Rusk's superficial analysis does not supply them...
...fact, one can argue that Rusk is ironically repeating Chamberlain's very mistake, that of believing that it is possible to deal with a hostile great power by adjusting the territory it wishes to annex. Chamberlain believed that he could stop Germany by giving her part of Czechoslovakia, while Rusk is presently trying to halt China by denying her South Vietnam. Neither Rusk nor Chamberlain believe in confronting their enemy directly. Chamberlain, of course, may have come to power too late to effect much change on Nazi Germany, but, as several China scholars recently demonstrated in a signed statement, Rusk...