Word: councill
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Harvard Debate Council was busy in March, when it sponsored a mass meeting in the Union on the always engaging topic of prohibition. Five hundred students were present; only ten favored retaining the 18th Amendment...
...Great Kabylia region between Algiers and Bougie, Ramdane Abbane graduated from a French lycée, managed to get one of the few civil-service jobs open to Moslems. From the first a hot-eyed revolutionary well-read in Marx, Abbane at 27 belonged to the inner council of the Algerian nationalist movement. Betrayed by an informer, he served five years in French prisons, emerged from jail in 1955 just as the rebellion was gathering strength...
Last week Sherwood had to face his sternest refuters, members of the Navajo's own tribal council. He had half an hour to commiserate with them; they had half an hour to reject his misbegotten sympathy. The Indians, in full war regalia, scalped him with little forensic grace but plenty of feeling. The tribe's executive secretary effectively refuted "the absurd and erroneous assertions of one Don Sherwood." Sherwood backed down, muttering, "I had my reservations about this...
...chief executives as famed for their public service as for their business savvy. Clarence Francis, president and later chairman between 1934 and 1954, has been a top food and foreign-trade adviser to Presidents Roosevelt, Truman and Eisenhower. His successor, Mortimer, was chairman of the star-studded Advertising Council from 1947 to 1950, headed the United Community Campaign fund last year. Under him, each General Foods' sales dollar has brought a pretax profit of 10? v. 7? for its chief competitor, Standard Brands (Chase & Sanborn coffee. Royal Gelatin, etc.), and General Foods' stock has risen from...
Finally, according to Peter D. Schultz '52, Secretary of the Alumni Association, "The dollar sign does loom pretty big." The Alumni Association, through the Harvard Fund Council, headed by poet David T.W. McCord '21, tries to encourage the "habit of annual giving...