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...business and government that would be open after World War II? The prominent citizens who met, one day in 1943, to mull that question over decided the answer was no. So the notables-including onetime Ambassador Joseph Grew, Harvard Professor William Yandell Elliott, the Commerce Department's Will Clayton and Congressman Christian Herter of Massachusetts-agreed to start a graduate school of their own. That was the beginning of the Foreign Service Educational Foundation and its School of Advanced International Studies...
...CLAYTON LANE...
This time the legislators also jumped on the Item. Invoking a constitutional clause that not even the Kingfish himself had ever used, the Senate by a vote of 31 to 4 moved to cite Editor Clayton Fritchey of the Item for "disrespectful, disorderly or contemptuous" conduct toward the legislature. Maximum penalty: ten days in jail...
...order of their election, the other winners were: Dominique Homan Wyant '50 of Atlanta, Georgia and Lowell House, Armando David Mazzone '50 of Everett and the Varsity Club, Charles Warren Detjen '50 of Clayton, Missouri and Eliot House, and Anthony Ripley '50 of Pleasant Ridge, Michigan and Lowell House...
...Congressman Donald O'Toole, who reminded the House of early U.S. discrimination against the Irish Catholic, vehemently upheld FEPC. "We are [God's] creatures," he cried, "and we are entitled to receive from each other the love He bade us give." Harlem's Congressman Adam Clayton Powell, pilot of the Administration bill, quoted Daniel Webster in railing against the McConnell substitute: "A law without a penalty is simply good advice...