Word: col
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...your March 9th news article dealing with the nomination of Col. Laurence E. Bunker '26 for a position on the Board of Overseers, I believe I detect a slight bias. It appears to me that you have chosen to emphasize a few seemingly unsavory elements in Bunker's record and have tried your best to neglect mentioning the many achievements which are to his credit. You seem to dwell upon the connection of Col. Bunker with "so-called right-wing causes" and, particularly, with the suggestion that his nomination is an expression of alumni dissatisfaction with the appointment...
...Standard-Times also said that he has been associated with "so-called right-wing causes" since his retirement from the Army in 1951. "A direct descendant of Nantucket whalers, Col. Bunker has addressed the Friends of Senator McCarthy and other right-wing organizations," according to the newspaper...
Since California has the most elaborate junior-college system in the country, the university is able to require that applicants have a B average in high school. But in such states as Oregon, where junior col leges are rare, many educators have begun to worry about what the tidal wave of students will do to their schools unless admissions standards go up. "It seems to me," says Chancellor John Richards of the state higher education system, "that if the weight of numbers of students threatens college instructional quality, then it is our clear obligation to control the numbers." Adds President...
...reserve provisions will have little effect upon the University's officer training program, according to Col. DeVere Armstrong, chief of Army ROTC at the University...
...double-barreled weapon for blasting Communists out of the labor movement. Barrel No. i: The act requires all union leaders to file non-Communist affidavits before a union may qualify for the board's vital services, of which an important one is certification of the union as a col lective bargaining agent. Barrel No. 2: it seemed logical to the board that, in cases where unions persisted in re-electing officers indicted or convicted for falsifying the affidavits, the NLRB could refuse its services to the whole union until members cleaned house and elected genuine nonCommunists...