Word: councill
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Nominations for the most beautiful, poised and personable coed on the Montreal campus drew 26 names. After a series of interviews, the council narrowed the field to five, assigned a campaign manager to each for the traditional politicking...
...when Montreal's Mayor Camellien Houde puffed up to McGill for the carnival ball, he put the crown on Beryl Dickinson-Dash's head. In the voting by McGill's 8,500 students (150 of them Negroes), Beryl had posted a decisive margin. The student council gave out no figures ("It might injure the other girls"), but it was satisfied with the election result. McGill's students, untroubled by any race problem, had merely voted for a popular and attractive girl, regardless of the color of her skin...
...Years or Forever. But when Hitler's armies invaded The Netherlands, Mengelberg welcomed them with open arms. At war's end he fled to Switzerland, and the Dutch Centrale Ereraad voor de Kunst (Central Council of Honor for the Arts) forbade him to conduct ever again in Holland, later reduced his banishment to six years-well knowing that for Mengelberg, then 76, six years might be forever...
American Committee for Protection of Foreign Born, American League for Peace & Democracy, American Youth for Democracy (see EDUCATION), Civil Rights Congress, Council for Pan-American Democracy, Joint Anti-Fascist Refugee Committee, National Committee to Win the Peace, National Council of American-Soviet Friendship, National Federation for Constitutional Liberties...
Previous commissioners have not always had a good time. Commissioner George F. Zook quit in 1934, after one year, for a job as president of the American Council on Education. The last commissioner, John Ward Studebaker, held the post for 14 years, then (after policy disagreements with new FSA Chief Oscar R. Ewing), resigned in June with the explanation: "I can no longer afford to remain in the Federal Government." Ewing had spent eight months searching for somebody able and willing to fill the job. In spite of all that, Earl McGrath is looking forward to the commissionership...