Word: conduction
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Erskine's recall was the result of mounting dissatisfaction, in Kenya and in Britain, over the conduct of the Mau Mau war. Despite periodic announcements that the guerrillas were on the run, 7,000 Mau Mau, armed with homemade guns and spears, are pinning down a division of British regulars and 28,000 Kikuyu Home Guardsmen, Masai spearmen and Samburu trackers. Erskine, to his credit, succeeded in penning the Mau Mau into a mountain redoubt: the tangled Aberdare highlands. But his bluntly stated conviction that bullets alone would never wean the mass of the Kikuyu tribe away from their...
Although "Members of the University differ widely in their attitude towards Professor Furry's conduct," the letter said, "Some--we do no know how many-- believe he was right in refusing to become what they would regard as a political informer...
...gift from Bethlehem. Said Bethlehem Board Chairman Eugene G. Grace: "[Thus] Bethlehem gives recognition to the fact that four years of education cost a college more than it receives from the students in tuition . . . and that his education makes the college graduate a valuable asset in the conduct of Bethlehem's business...
...hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars was appropriated by the Fund for the Republic to conduct one to three hour hour long interviews on the basis of a 12-page questionnaire Stouffer prepared. "The most elaborate and modern methods were used to get accurate results," said Stouffer...
Every day the President conferred by long-distance telephone with John Foster Dulles in Washington. The subject was, naturally, the vexing and dilatory conduct of the French National Assembly (see FOREIGN NEWS). The presidential plane Columbine III stood, almost like a getaway car, fully fueled and ready to rush Ike back to Washington if the French refused to ratify the Paris accords...