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...McCarthy paper." Led by its new owner, John Fox '29, multi-millionaire oilman and financial wizard, the Post has not only joined the Senator's crusade against Communism, but started crusades of its own: to ban books from Boston's libraries, prevent the appointment of James B. Conant as U. S. High Commissioner in Germany, and unseat the management of Harvard University. To accomplish his purposes, Fox has accepted severe financial losses, for his competitors can offer advertisers morning and afternoon papers for the price of one. But he has held on. Fox has run the Post a little more...
...Conant High-Jinks...
Kelso had another exclusive on the appointment of President-Emeritus James B. Conant as High Commissioner to Germany last February. Compare the Post articles on the confirmation of Conant with the regular Associated Press stories, and you will find the AP's lead often buried in the fifteenth or sixteenth paragraphs of the Post. The Post deemed significant the fact that "Conant appeared to be talking nervously over the phone" after appearing before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. The day the AP reported Conant's confirmation virtually certain, the Post headlined PROTESTS MOUNT OVER CONANT, and Kelso predicted the fury...
Throughout the Seminar the brooding and benevolent spirit of Harvard is manifest in innumerable ways. And in the speech which he interrupted his vacation to give at Schloss Leopoldskron, the home of the Salzburg Seminar, High Commissioner James Bryant Conant expressed a justifiable pride in Harvard's role in the Seminar's history...
This dispute went unresolved until 1950, when a committee of distinguished U. S. scientists, appointed by President Conant, decided that McKay had intended that his bequest go toward the engineering sciences. He had expressed an especial interest in mechanical engineering...