Word: comptons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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President Karl T. Compton of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and President Daniel L. Marsh of Boston University yesterday expressed agreement with President Conant's advocacy of federal aid to education...
Although a business trip had prevented his hearing the Crimson Network's Thursday evening broadcast of President Conant's address, Compton nevertheless stated that he was acquainted with the latter's views on United States educational subsidies and was in "full agreement" with them. He declined to comment on such specific isues as the control of schools during the period of government aid because he had not heard the talk...
...ceremony thereafter. He called himself "The Late Mayor." He filled city offices with sluggish Tammany favorites. He kept a wardrobe of 70 $165 suits, drove about the city in a $17,000 Duesenberg. He lolled happily at the fabulous Central Park Casino with his mistress, musical comedy star Betty Compton (whom he afterwards married). Jazz-happy New York loved...
...President Karl T. Compton of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Mrs. J. Borden Harriman, former Minister to Norway, the Rt. Rev. Henry St., George Tucker, Presiding Bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States, Robert J. Watt, International Representative of A.F.L., Senator Elbert Thomas, chairman of the Senate Military Affairs Committee, and Ewing Cockrell, New York attorney, in a statement last week also called for universal disarmament, denounced as absurd international machinery designed to prevent only atomic armaments...
...Archibald MacLeish, poet and ex-Librarian of Congress; George D. Stoddard, president of the University of Illinois; Arthur H. Compton, chancellor of Washington University (St. Louis); Anne O'Hare McCormick of the New York Times. Alternates: Chester Bowles, ex-OPA Administrator; Milton Eisenhower, president of Kansas State College; Charles S. Johnson, president-elect of Fisk University (see below); George N. Shuster, president of Hunter College; Anna Rosenberg of OWMR...