Word: connecticuter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Connecticut Valley Educators have attacked the Washington decisions as "establishing the principle that an instructor may be dismissed solely upon the basis of his political beliefs without regard to academic performance or qualifications . . . the continuation of this policy will lead inevitably to a colorless orthodoxy of 'safe 'ideas." Other educator groups are also protesting...
...Josiah Holbrook of Connecticut had no notion at first that his scheme would catch on as it did. Back in 1826, he and his friends were only a handful, but they were serious about the idea that the nation's new common schools belonged to the public and that the public should be concerned to make them better. They organized the American Lyceum to help set standards, soon had members all over the U.S. For more than a decade these members made speeches, wrote articles, held public meetings. They got results: better training for teachers, the formation of state...
...Nominated Princeton's Professor Henry DeWolf Smyth, author of the famed Smyth Report on atomic energy, and the University of Southern California's Professor Gordon Evans Dean, onetime law partner of Connecticut's Senator Brien McMahon, to fill the existing vacancies on the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission...
...attempt, by Massachusetts' Henry Cabot Lodge Jr., to tack on an anti-segregation provision, which would have smothered the bill in Southern votes. An effort of Missouri's Republican Forrest Donnell to bar Roman Catholic schools from even indirect help collapsed, and so did one by Connecticut's Democrat Brien McMahon to require such indirect help. Such questions were left, as Taft had insisted they should be, to the states. In the end, the Senate passed the bill...
Playing the first half of its game at Springfield in clouds of dust stirred up at every step, and the last half in a semitropical Connecticut rainstorm, the lacrosse team fought its way through the elements and a tough Springfield squad to win, 7 to 6, Saturday...