Word: committeemen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Yardling conservatives managed to insert a clause specifying that long socks be worn with the shorts, but several committeemen still were not satisfied. "The wearing of trousers is the last thread of tradition left at Harvard," protested Robert J. Wyman '60. Harvard Union officials still must approve the rule change...
...which won 3, lost four). The rest of the committee included four Ph.D.s (a Russian-born chemist plus professors of Greek literature, economics and medieval history.) There were also some assorted deans, a professor of hygiene, and a director of financial aid. But like all Monday-morning quarterbacks, the committeemen wound up by blaming everything on the white-thatched, mild-mannered coach Jordan, they recommended to the Harvard Corporation last week, should be fired for "poor teaching...
...which won 3, lost 4). The rest of the committee included four Ph.D.s (a Russian-born chemist plus professors of Greek literature, economics and Medieval history). There were also some assorted deans, a professor of hygiene, and a director of financial aid. But like all Monday-morning quarterbacks, the committeemen wound up by blaming everything on the white-thatched, mild-mannered coach. Jordan, they recommended to the Harvard Corporation last week, should be fired for "poor teaching...
Shining with confidence, California's polished Paul Ziffren arrived in Washington last week to help other Democratic National Committeemen buff up their strategy. As the committeeman from a big state that shows steady Democratic inroads (and may be due for 37 House seats instead of the present 30, under the 1961 reapportionment), Ziffren felt emboldened to make a major suggestion. The suggestion, co-fathered by Committeemen Jake Arvey of Illinois* and David Lawrence of Pennsylvania: a new 17-member committee, made up of non-National Committeemen to advise the party...
...were discovering and uncovering a pile of dirty linen, four segregationist members of a congressional subcommittee last week launched a windy investigation into Washington's schools. It was no secret to anyone that the D.C. schools, which started integrating two years ago, were having their troubles. But the committeemen, headed by Georgia's Representative James C. Davis,* were clearly out to make a national noise about integration-and they made some noise...